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.
Azabache (también Belleza Negra; título original, Black Beauty) es una novela de 1877 escrita por la inglesa Anna Sewell.1 Fue compuesta en los últimos años de su vida, durante los cuales estuvo confinada en casa por invalidez. La autora pudo ver el inmediato éxito que alcanzó su...
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