Baker, Margaret J. Anna Sewell and "Black Beauty." London: George G. Harrap, 1956. A biographical novel for audiences up to fourteen years of age.

Short and easy to read, the book points out some possible autobiographical sources for events in the novel. Presents some speculations as if they were facts.

Bayly, Elizabeth Boyd. "Black Beauty and Its Author." In Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation. Edited by Vincent Starrett. Chicago: CoviciMcGee, 1923. A succinct and useful biography of Anna and history of Black Beauty written for junior high school students. The book contains essays on authors whose lives and works Starrett felt were undeservedly neglected.

Bayly, Mrs. M. The Life and Letters of Mrs. Sewell. 2d ed. London: James Nisbet, 1889. This biography of Mary Sewell, written by one of her friends, contains a chapter about Anna Sewell, "My Nannie" ("Nannie" was Mary's pet name for Anna...