Literary Birthday – 30 March – Anna Sewell

Anna Sewell Quotes

1. We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
2. There is no religion without love, and 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.
3. I am never afraid of what I know.
4. My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
5. If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Anna Sewell was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel, Black Beauty. The novel is one of the top ten bestselling novels for children ever written. She wrote Black Beauty when she became seriously ill. She said: “I have for six years been confined to the house and to my sofa, and have from time to time, as I was able, been writing what I think will turn out a little book, its special aim being to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses.” Her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, was the author of popular children’s books, and she helped her edit them. Anna Sewell died on 25 April 1878, aged 58.

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by Amanda Patterson

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