Anna Sewell in Old Catton, Sewell wrote the manuscript of "Black Beauty" – in the period between 1871 and 1877. During this time her health was declining; she was often so weak that she was confined to her bed. Writing was a challenge. She dictated the text to her mother and from 1876 began to write on slips of paper which her mother then transcribed. Although the book is now considered a children's classic, Sewell originally wrote it for those who worked with horses. She said "a special aim was to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses". In many
Children of Light (book) stage name of Lu Anne Bourgeois Morgen, a successful actress who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Gordon, an alcoholic drug addict whose second wife has just left him, goes on location to Mexico where they're filming Walker's screenplay which is an adaptation of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" that Lu Anne is starring in. Walker discovers that she has gone off of her medication in an attempt to more fully embody her character. Children of Light (book) Children of Light is the fourth published novel by U. S. writer Robert Stone. It was published in 1986. In the front matter of the