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.
A spinal carriage… was rather like a wicker coffin. It was very uncomfortable and you lay flat out in this thing and of course all you could see were the branches of the trees or the roofs of the houses going by overhead and it was extremely boring. With any luck you were allowed perhaps to sit up on the way home from a walk.
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They were still using something very similar when I was convalescing at the country outpost of Great Ormond Street in the mid-1970s, except they were moulded plastic and in a variety of (not very cheerful) colours – also no rain hood!
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
They were still using something very similar when I was convalescing at the country outpost of Great Ormond Street in the mid-1970s, except they were moulded plastic and in a variety of (not very cheerful) colours – also no rain hood!
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