...people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and upside down for what they are.

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.