Black Beauty
Subtitle: his grooms and companions : the autobiography of a horse
By: by Anna Sewell ; edited by Kristen Guest
Contributors: Guest, Kristen, 1967-
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781443833820
Subjects: Horses; Black Beauty (Fictitious character); Horses in literature; Fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]).
Table of contents: title: Anna sewell : a brief chronology; title: Black Beauty : his grooms and companions : the autobiography of a horse; title: Appendices : contemporary documents. A. Victorian science and religion : questions of animal emotion. I. From Frances Power Cobbe, "The rights of man and the claims of brutes" (1863) ; II. From Charles Darwin, The expression of the emotions in man and animals (1872) ; III. From Philip Hamerton, Chapters on animals (1874); title: B. Victorian industry : horse and machine. I. Fanny Kemble: "Letter August 26, 1830," from Record of a girlhood (1878) ; II. From W.J. Gordon, The horse world of London (1893); title: C. Animal cruelty, equine management, and the bearing rein. I. From Edward Fordham Flower, Bits and bearing reins (1875) ; II. From Samuel Smiles, Duty (1880) ; III. From S. Sidney, The horse book (1893); title: Explanatory notes.