Fireside Reading of Black Beauty

Written by Anna Sewell

Narrated by Gildart Jackson

Experience Black Beauty like never before in this Fireside Reading performed by Gildart Jackson. The classic tale is read fireside and can be enjoyed by all ages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Jul 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9781666611571

Anna Sewell

Anna Sewell was born in 1820 into a Quaker family whose respect for horses was out of step with the common view of the time, that animals should be worked until they dropped. Disabled in a fall aged 14, Anna lived all her life with her parents but became an expert carriage driver and, as editor and stern critic, helped her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, become a successful author of evangelical children's books. Anna wrote Black Beauty, her only book, in the last years of her life, as a plea for more humane treatment of horses. She died in 1878, a year after the novel was published to wide acclaim.