Month: March 2010

The Times spells Rosemary Sutcliff (right) Sutcliffe (wrong) | Sutcliffe Spelling Watch

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The Times Online  has again written Sutcliffe (with an E, wrong) where it should write Sutcliff. It has made this mistake on at least ten occasions in the last five years. Try searching under Rosemary Sutcliffe (the wrong spelling) for yourself; below is a picture of the results. I wrote to ‘letters to the editor’ – no response until I wrote to the editor direct – that:

The Times, not least as a paper of ‘record’, should surely always get the spelling right of the internationally acclaimed historical novelist who you yourselves in January 2008 identified as one of the “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”. (You spelled it correctly that time …)

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Physicist science fiction fan recommends Rosemary Sutcliff books

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Today, courtesy of a Google Alert,  I came across an old discussion thread, ‘Is there a war between Science Fiction and Historical Fiction’ , where a physicist who reads Rosemary Sutcliff recommends several of Rosemary’s books.  Although he did spell her name wrong – with an E, a regular moan of this blog, Stephen Harker wrote:

Rosemary Sutcliffe’s (sic)  Sword at Sunset and  Rider on the White Horse are well worth reading.  A lot of her historical fiction was pitched towards children and adolescents.  However, I have found them worth re-reading as an adult, for example:  The Eagle of the Ninth,  The  Silver Branch and  The Lantern Bearers which have some connection with  Sword at Sunset.

New action movie The Eagle of the Ninth is for girls too

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Channing Tatum is in the upcoming movie “Eagle of the Ninth” is a piece on the coming film which makes the case for it as a movie for girls, with the “hunky” Channing Tatum. More about the film and the book on which it is based here on this blog.

‘Swords and sandals’ film The Eagle of the Ninth bids for box-office glory

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Swords and sandals: A bid for box-office glory is an article in The Independent about forthcoming historical films, including The Eagle of the Ninth. ‘Swords and Sandals’ as a label for a genre of films which I have only recently come across. Perhaps it was only recently coined? It is the name of a popular series of computer games. More about the film and the book on which it is based here on this blog. And the obituary about Rosemary from The Independent here.

Boston-Globe Horn Book Award for Tristan and Iseult 1972

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Rosemary Sutcliff won the Boston-Globe Horn Book Award for Tristan and Iseult in 1972. She also won the (UK) Library Association Carnegie Award for The Lantern Bearers in 1959; was highly commended by the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1974, and nominated in 1968; the  Phoenix Children’s Book Award for The Mark of the Horse Lord in 1985, and for The Shining Company in 2010; and the The Carnegie Medal for the Lantern Bearers in 1959.

  • More about awards won by Rosemary Sutcliff here on this blog.