Anna Sewell or US $4,630 in 2017) and the book was published the same year. After the publication of her only novel, Sewell fell seriously ill. Sewell was in extreme pain and completely bedridden for the following months, and she died on 25 April 1878 of hepatitis or tuberculosis. She was buried on 30 April 1878 at Quaker burial-ground in Lammas near Buxton, Norfolk, not far from Norwich. Sewell's birthplace in Church Plain, Great Yarmouth has been the home to a museum and a tea shop. The house in Old Catton where she wrote "Black Beauty" is now known as Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell Sewell assisted her mother, for example, to establish a working men's club, and worked with her on temperance and abolitionist campaigns. In 1845, the family moved to Lancing, and Sewell's health began to deteriorate. She travelled to Europe the following year to seek treatments. On her return, the family continued to relocate – to Wick in 1858, and to Bath in 1864. In 1866, Philip's wife died, leaving him with seven young children to care for, and the following year the Sewells moved to Old Catton, a village outside the city of Norwich in Norfolk, to support him. While living