She is the author of Just in Case, What I Was and How I Live Now. She has worked in publishing, public relations and most recently advertising, but thinks the best job in the world would be head gardener for Regents Park. Black Beauty, an enormous success from its first appearance, was soon adopted by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and used to improve the conditions of horses everywhere. EXCLUSIVE: Escape Artists just optioned Wallace Stegner’s critically acclaimed novel Crossing To Safety, a semi-autobiographical tome about two academic couples who meet in Madison, WI and. On April 25, 1878, she died at her home in Old Catton near Norwich, England. Although she was seriously ill, she lived long enough to finish her book and see it published in 1877. In 1871, she was told she had eighteen months to live, and by the end of that year, she had begun her book, Black Beauty, hoping it might make people a little kinder to their faithful horses. By her mid-thirties she was severely lame and could only get around in a pony cart, and characteristically she would never use a whip on the animal. But a crippling bone disease and a fall in 1834 left her an invalid for most of her life.

Brought up in a strict Quaker family, Anna developed a strong interest in horses as a young girl. Anna Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, on March 30, 1820. Crossing to Safety tells the story of two couples, the Morgans (Larry & Sally) and the Langs (Sid & Charity) who meet in Madison, Wisconsin, at.

Crossing to safety