Anna Sewell (30 March 1820 - 25 April 1878) was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty.

It was based on the novel Beauty by Faith Baldwin.

This is touched on in the novel Black Beauty.

Inspired by Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty, Cleveland Amory established the Black Beauty ranch, a 1, 460-acre sanctuary that sheltered various abused animals including chimpanzees, burros and elephants.

Thomas the Rhymer (here with the alternative name Tom-lin) also appears in Sheri S. Tepper's novel Beauty.

In 1965, a censor during the Apartheid era, without troubling to actually read the book, put Anne Sewell's 1877 novel Black Beauty on a banned list because he didn't like the title.

Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from a section of Spinoza's Ethics.

The novel Black Beauty, although about a horse and not a pony, is seen as a forerunner of pony book fiction.

Another classic of the period is Anna Sewell's animal novel Black Beauty.

At 9, she tried to share her dad's interest in reading: "I got the novel 'Black Beauty' and sat in a chair opposite him.