Anna Sewell biography

ANNA SEWELL Anna Sewell was born in England in 1820. Of course, the world knows her best for her single work, Black Beauty, the life and times of a black horse with a single sock and a star, from his happy youth to his pleasant retirement and the turbulent events in between. At the time, England was called a "hell for horses". As a young Quaker girl, she and her mother often saw horses suffering terribly …

…them are large 12 inch horses while the third is part of a smaller sized set including Merrylegs, Ginger and Beauty's mother, Duchess. Royal Doulton also has it's porcelain version. The story was about a horse that was well trained and was sold to a kind and loving master that had a horse and a pony that befriended black beauty. I think the story was somewhat boring but it really points out the cruelty toward horses.