![About the author
The author of this story is Anna Sewell. Anna Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, into a
devoutly Quaker family. Her father was Isaac Phillip Sewell (1793–1879), and her mother, Mary Wright Sewell
(1798–1884) was a successful author of children's books. She had one sibling, a younger brother named Philip
and was largely educated at home. When Anna was twelve, the family moved to Stoke Newington where she
attended school for the first time.[2] Two years later, however, she slipped while walking home from school
and severely injured both of her ankles. Her father took a job in Brighton in 1836, in the hope that the climate
there would help to cure her. Despite this, and most likely because of mistreatment of her injury, for the rest
of her life Anna was unable to stand without a crutch or to walk for any length of time. For greater mobility,
she frequently used horse-drawn carriages, which contributed to her love of horses and concern for the
humane treatment of animals. At about this time, both Anna and her mother left the Society of Friends to join
the Church of England, though both remained active in evangelical circles. Her mother expressed her
religious faith most noticeably by authoring a series of evangelical children's books, which Anna helped to
edit, though all the Sewell's, and Mary Sewell's family, the Wrights, engaged in many other good works. While
seeking to improve her health in Europe, Sewell encountered various writers, artists, and philosophers, to
which her previous background had not exposed her. Sewell's only published work was Black Beauty, written
during 1871 to 1877, after she had moved to Old Catton, a village outside the city of Norwich in Norfolk.
During this time her health was declining. She was often so weak that she was confined to her bed and writing
was a challenge. She dictated the text to her mother and from 1876 began to write on slips of paper which her
mother then transcribed. Sewell sold the novel to local publisher Jarrolds on 24 November 1877, when she
was 57 years of age. Although it is now considered a children's classic, she originally wrote it for those who
worked with horses. She said "a special aim [was] to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding
treatment of horses".[3]Sewell died on 25 April 1878 of hepatitis or phthisis,[4] five months after her book
was published, living long enough to see its initial success. She was buried on 30 April 1878 in the Quaker
burial-ground at Lammas near Buxton, Norfolk, not far from Norwich, where a wall plaque now marks her
resting place.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/literaturelesson-1myearlyhome-140827201215-phpapp02/85/my-early-home-3-320.jpg)
my early home
- 1. Literature Lesson-1 My early home
- 2. Brief story We have a small extract from the novel Black Beauty: • The first place where the colt lived was a large meadow with a lot of greenery and a pond of clean water. When the colt was young he used to relay on it’s mother’s. As soon as he was able to do things own it’s own it’s mother started to go to work. It had some friends but they were cart-horse colts so they didn’t had manners and always used to kick or bite’, due to this type of friends he started learn to kick and bite. When it’s mother saw that he has started to kick and bite she told to it “you should never kick or bite, the friends of yours are good but they are cart-horse colts and then they would of course have bad manners so you should not kick or bite each other". The colt’s master was a good kind man, he gave colt a piece of bread. Every day a person named Dick came to pluck blue-berries from the hedge and after plucking the berries he used to throw stones and sticks on the horses for fun and when he was doing this he didn’t know that master of the horses was watching him. The master came near Dick and gave him a hard box on his ear and from that day they never saw Dick again. -Anna Sewell
- 3. About the author The author of this story is Anna Sewell. Anna Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, into a devoutly Quaker family. Her father was Isaac Phillip Sewell (1793–1879), and her mother, Mary Wright Sewell (1798–1884) was a successful author of children's books. She had one sibling, a younger brother named Philip and was largely educated at home. When Anna was twelve, the family moved to Stoke Newington where she attended school for the first time.[2] Two years later, however, she slipped while walking home from school and severely injured both of her ankles. Her father took a job in Brighton in 1836, in the hope that the climate there would help to cure her. Despite this, and most likely because of mistreatment of her injury, for the rest of her life Anna was unable to stand without a crutch or to walk for any length of time. For greater mobility, she frequently used horse-drawn carriages, which contributed to her love of horses and concern for the humane treatment of animals. At about this time, both Anna and her mother left the Society of Friends to join the Church of England, though both remained active in evangelical circles. Her mother expressed her religious faith most noticeably by authoring a series of evangelical children's books, which Anna helped to edit, though all the Sewell's, and Mary Sewell's family, the Wrights, engaged in many other good works. While seeking to improve her health in Europe, Sewell encountered various writers, artists, and philosophers, to which her previous background had not exposed her. Sewell's only published work was Black Beauty, written during 1871 to 1877, after she had moved to Old Catton, a village outside the city of Norwich in Norfolk. During this time her health was declining. She was often so weak that she was confined to her bed and writing was a challenge. She dictated the text to her mother and from 1876 began to write on slips of paper which her mother then transcribed. Sewell sold the novel to local publisher Jarrolds on 24 November 1877, when she was 57 years of age. Although it is now considered a children's classic, she originally wrote it for those who worked with horses. She said "a special aim [was] to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses".[3]Sewell died on 25 April 1878 of hepatitis or phthisis,[4] five months after her book was published, living long enough to see its initial success. She was buried on 30 April 1878 in the Quaker burial-ground at Lammas near Buxton, Norfolk, not far from Norwich, where a wall plaque now marks her resting place.
- 4. Save animals As we all just do like Dick we just kill them or hurt them do you think that we should do that? Let’s see a small video clip on that.