Black Beauty : his grooms and companions : the autobiography of a horse / Anna Sewell ; edited by Kristen Guest.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878, author.

Contributor:

• Guest, Kristen, 1967- editor.

Series:

• Broadview editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Animals--Fiction.
• Horses--Fiction.
• Animals.
• Horses.

Genre:

• Fiction.

Physical Description:

242 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario Broadview Editions, [2016].

Summary:

Continuously in print and translated into multiple languages since it was first published, Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is a classic work of children's literature and an important text in the fields of Victorian studies and animal studies. Writing to "induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses," Sewell realistically documents the working conditions of Black Beauty, who moves down the social scale from a rural carriage horse to a delivery horse in London. Sewell makes visible and tangible the experience of animals who were often treated as if they were machines. Though she died shortly after it was published, Sewell's book contributed significantly to late nineteenth-century campaigns for humane treatment of horses and remains a seminal anti-cruelty text today. The Broadview Press edition reproduces the first edition of 1877, restoring material often abridged in other modern editions. Appendices include materials on contemporary animal-rights movements, "equine management," and Victorian understandings of animal emotions.

Contents:

• Appendix A Biographical Context and Early Reception 195
• 1 From Mary Bayly, The Life and Letters of Mrs. Sewell (1890) 195
• 2 From George T. Angell, "Introductory Chapter" to the American Humane Education Society Edition of Black Beauty (1890) 198
• 3 Review of Black Beauty, The Nonconformist (9 January 1878) 199
• Appendix B Victorian Science: Questions of Animal Emotion 201
• 1 From Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man andAnimals (1872) 201
• 2 From Thomas Huxley, "On the Hypothesis that Animals Are Automata, and Its History" (1874) 204
• 3 From George Romanes, Animal Intelligence (1882) 206
• 4 From George Romanes, Mental Evolution in Animals (1884) 207
• Appendix C Victorian Industry: Horse and Machine 211
• 1 From Fanny Kemble, Record of a Girlhood (1878) 211
• 2 From Philip Hamerton, Chapters on Animals (1874) 212
• 3 From W.J. Gordon, The Horse World of London (1893) 213
• Appendix D Animal Cruelty and Animal Rights 217
• 1 From Frances Power Cobbe, "The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes" (1865) 217
• 2 From John Duke Coleridge, The Lord Chief Justice of England [Baron Coleridge] on Vivisection (1881) 220
• 3 From Henry Salt, Animal Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892) 222
• Appendix E Bits, Bearing Reins, and Equine Management 227
• 1 From Henry Curling, Lashing for the Lashers: Being an Exposition of the Cruelties Practised upon the Cab and Omnibus Hones of London (1851) 227
• 2 From Sir Arthur Helps, Some Talk about Animals and Their Masters (1873) 229
• 3 From Samuel Sidney, The Book of the Horse (1873) 231
• 4 From Edward Fordham Flower, Bits and Bearing Reins (1875) 233
• 5 From Samuel Smiles, Duty (1880) 238.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 9781554812882
• 1554812887

OCLC:

935628656

Publisher Number:

40025793289