- More on the story of The Shining Company here.
- Source about the Phoenix Award: ChLA pamphlet here
Month: March 2010
Research Centres on Children and Young People’s Literature and Writing in UK
I have been tracking down the main research centres in England where scholars, students and teachers might have a particular interest in Rosemary Sutcliff’s writing, and issues related to her writing, as well as to historical fiction and story-telling. Thus I had an idea who to ask Read More »
University of Reading lecturer turned on to Roman History by Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth
Matthew Nicholls, lecturer in classics and senior tutor at the University of Reading said today in the Guardian that Rosemary Sutcliff’s “wonderful” book The Eagle of the Ninth helped turn him on to Roman history. Read More »
The film of Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth is a Western | Kevin Macdonald Director
In The Scotsman on Kevin Macdonald, Oscar-winning Scottish director of the film of Rosemary Sutcliff‘s The Eagle of the Ninth, said : “I read the book when I was a kid, and it was just something that had always stuck in my mind as a great mystery adventure.” Like Rosemary, his love is great story-telling:Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff creates fictional ‘characters with goals’ who ‘score’?
Eminent historical novelist and children’s writer Rosemary Sutcliff was praised for the richness of her language. Not for her the dead hand of the language of human resources, goals and quality improvement monitoring officers. So a description of a conference workshop which Google has alerted me to would not have commended itself to her.
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ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 