One of the Authors featured in Literary Norfolk
Anna Sewell (1820-1878)
'The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.'
Anna Sewell only wrote one book in her lifetime, but her much-loved children's classic Black Beauty has been continuously in print ever since its publication in 1877. Anna learned to ride as a child when staying with her grandparents at Dudwick Farm, Buxton, where her brother's horse 'Black Bess' provided the inspiration for her fiction. The book was to make a lasting impression on animal welfare in Victorian Britain and led directly to the abolition of the bearing-rein. The copyright of Black Beauty was sold for just twenty pounds, and, dying soon after publication, Anna Sewell never lived to see the book go on to be translated into twenty languages and sell over 30 million copies.
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