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.
The Eagle of the Ninth is but one example of how historical novelist Rosemary Sutcliff researched all her work very carefully. As well as drawing on her own library of books (see below), she used to have books sent to her on loan from the wonderful, private, London Library. I suspect she would have been supportive of the Save our Libraries campaigning.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 