The ever usful Google Alert points me to all manner of items linked with Rosemary Sutcliff. The Google Translator is less reliable. Thus read and translate a paragraph of a german blog:Read More »
Month: March 2010
Rosemary Sutcliff’s award-winning historical novel Song for a Dark Queen reviewed in The Times in 1978
Rosemary Sutcliff was astonished but delighted when her novel about Boudicca (often wrongly spelt Boadicea) – Song for a Dark Queen -won The Other Award for fiction. It was an award for books which were determinedly egalitarian and respectful of women. She was not sure what those responsible for it would have thought of her Telegraph-reading Tory politics. Read More »
The Morning Star better than The Times in spelling Rosemary Sutcliff correctly
I do hate it when people who should know better do not spell Rosemary Sutcliff (correct spelling) correctly, using Sutcliffe with an E (wrong spelling). The Times last week, so called newspaper of record, spelled her name wrong in an article about the film of The Eagle of the Ninth. Hooray, for communism or socialism I say, although Rosemary Sutcliff – a Tory Sussex lady – would not have agreed … Published in the Morning Star under the heading ‘The ins and outs of Trease and Sutcliff’ is the letter I wrote to then when they spelled her wrong. I still have not even an apology from The Times , a mistake being relayed around the internet, and pointed out to The Times at the same time as I alerted The Morning Star.
The limits of Google translation about Rosemary Sutcliff
Trying to make sense of comments made on the previous Spanish post , I am faced with a comment that in translation is as follows:
Why, however romanófilo it one, give me I would not like the novel. You were giving me itchy with the description of the protagonists (so young and perfect) and the Manicheism good / bad. It will be as you say by the age of the novel, but one has their prejudices with these things. Although I suppose that’s a very good young adult novel set. Great review Valeria.
Film of Rosemary Sutcliff’s book The Eagle of the Ninth with stars Channing Tatum, Donald Sutherland, Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, Tahar Rahim
The ‘Roman epic adventure’ film of The Eagle of the Ninth is directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald and produced by Duncan Kenworthy. Channing Tatum heads the cast (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the … Dear John) . Focus features, funders with Film 4 said Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 