For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
Blog Daughter Number Three calls itself a “filing cabinet of stuff I have stumbled upon”. The author writes “she is the third of four daughters, raised in a rural area outside of a small town. Now living in a moderately large city, making media and immersed in other people’s media”. One of her goals in life is “to read everything written by Rosemary Sutcliff, so I’ve been reading her 1957 novel Lady in Waiting, the story of Bess Throckmorton, who secretly married Sir Walter Raleigh (to the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth I)”. She writes that it’s an “oldie but goodie”, like her post here.