Sewell was injured as a teenager, resulting in almost the complete loss of use of her legs. Still, since I have the vaguest of memories from things that happened 25 years ago, we’ll say I came to this novel completely new and without any sort of spoilers! (Which is entirely true because aside from a vague sense of horses weren’t treated the best in pre-car England, I had no idea what I was in for.)īlack Beauty was originally published in 1877. Although, as I was reading the novel, I had vague flashbacks of scenes, and I don’t know if this is because my mother read me the book when I was very young, or she let me watch the 1994 movie around the time it was released. S kipping back into the 187 0s for the next novel, which somehow escaped the horse-fueled frenzy that was me when I was 10.
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