Resources
Teacher Resources
"BBC - Religions - Christianity: Quakers." BBC - Homepage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/quakers_1.shtml (accessed July 11, 2013).
This website gives basic information on a variety of faiths, including the Quakers.
"Black Beauty Study Guide - Anna Sewell - eNotes.com." Study Guides, Lesson Plans, Homework Help, Answers & More - eNotes.com. http://www.enotes.com/black-beauty (accessed July 10, 2013).
This website is a study guide to use with students while reading the novel. It also has some background and contextual information.
Clark, Kenneth. Animals and Men: Their Relationship as reflected in Western art from prehistory to the present day. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1977.
This is a history book on animals in art and is a wonderful resource for the art classroom.
Cooke, Simon. "Animals and Victorian art." The Victorian Web: An Overview.
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/animals.html (accessed July 12, 2013).
Cooke, Simon. "Harrison Weir (1824-1906) man of many parts." The Victorian Web: An Overview. http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/weir/cooke.html (accessed July 12, 2013).
The Victorian Web is a wonderful website which has a tremendous amount of information on all aspects of Victorian culture.
Donald, Diana. Picturing animals in Britain, 1750-1850. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale
University Press [for] The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2007.
This is a wonderful book on animals in art during the Victorian period and prior. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in this subject.
Dorre, Gina M.. Victorian fiction and the cult of the horse. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006.
This book deals with Victorian literature and the horse. Unless one is very interested in this topic, it is probably too specific for resource.
"Facts and Figures." International Baccalaureate Organization. www.ibo.org/facts/ (accessed July 15, 2013).
Gavin, Adrienne E.. Dark horse: a life of Anna Sewell. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Pub., 2004.
This biography is definitely worth reading. It shows what a wonderful person Anna Sewell was.
"Harrison Weir Biography." Landseer Art Gallery. landseer.eu5.org/web/html/biography_weir.html (accessed July 15, 2013).
A website on Edwin Landseer which has some biographical information on Harrison Weir.
"Harrison Weir-about the cats like science through the eyes of an artist." Printed Souls. printedsouls.com/en/brush/11-harisan-uajar-za-kotkite-kato-nauka-prez-ochite-na-edin-hudozhnik (accessed July 15, 2013).
A website with some biographical information on Harrison Weir.
Hurll, Estelle M., and Edwin Henry Landseer. Landseer; a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation.. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1901.
This 1901 book has a great deal of biographical information on Edwin Landseer.
Ingpen, Roger. "Weir, Harrison William." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/36817 (accessed July 11, 2013).
Klein, Jennifer, and Elizabeth Stuart. Using art to teach reading comprehension strategies: lesson plans for teachers. Lanham, MD: R & L Education, 2012.
This is a great resource for anyone wanting to integrate reading strategies and art.
Morse, Deborah Denenholz, and Martin A. Danahay. Victorian animal dreams: representations of animals in Victorian literature and culture. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2007.
A wonderful, comprehensive book on Victorian England and their representations of animals. I would highly recommend this as a resource.
Norris, Michelle. "How 'Black Beauty' Changed The Way We See Horses: NPR." NPR: National Public Radio: News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts: NPR. http://www.npr.org/2012/11/02/163971063/how-black-beauty-changed-the-way-we-see-horses?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=share&utm_campaign= (accessed July 10, 2013).
This website gives information on the impact of the novel.
Ormond, Richard, Edwin Henry Landseer, Joseph J. Rishel, and Robin Hamlyn. Sir Edwin Landseer. New York: Rizzoli, 1981.
This is the catalog from the last major American exhibition of Landseer's work. While done in 1981, it is still the best resource on the artists.
Ormond, Richard. The monarch of the glen: Landseer in the Highlands. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2005.
The exhibition catalog to a 2005 exhibition of Landseer's work in Scotland, this book focuses on the Scottish aspects to his work.
Perkins, David. Romanticism and animal rights. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
This interesting book focuses on how writing during the Victorian period, in unprecedented amounts, urged kindness to animals and how this helped fuel the animal right movements.
Ritvo, Harriet. The animal estate: the English and other creatures in the Victorian Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.
This is another wonderful resource on Victorian England and their views of animals.
"The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner , Landseer, Edwin Henry (Sir, RA) , V&A Search the Collections." Search the Collections , Victoria and Albert Museum. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O16452/the-old-shepherds-chief-mourner-oil-painting-landseer-edwin-henry/ (accessed July 15, 2013).
The Victoria and Albert Museum's website has a great deal of information on the artist and this painting.
Weir, Harrison. The poetry of nature. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1868.This book can also be found on line for free.
Student Resources
Lavie, Arlette. Who cares about animal rights?. New York: Child's Play, 1992.
This children's book introduces several animal right issues from fox hunting to furs to zoos. It also shows the different ways animals are used by humans. It is an easy, concise way to introduce a multi-faceted topic.
Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty: An Autobiography of a Horse. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922.
This version can be found online for free.
Sewell, Anna, and Alice Thorne. Black Beauty. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962.
This picture book version still retains the story and sense of language in a condensed version. While it would take some time to read out loud, it has pictures and would be a good potion if reading the original were not possible.
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