My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

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.