I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

Biography
Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth Norfolk England into a devoutly Quaker family. Two years later however Anna Sewell slipped while walking home from school and severely injured both of her ankles. Sewell's only publiAnna Sewelld work was Black Beauty written during 1871 to 1877 after Anna Sewell had moved to Old Catton a village outside the city of Norwich in Norfolk.