Rosemary Sutcliff lived some of her childhood in North Devon. Her old house – for I think this is it – is now, I find, a North Devon bed and breakfast venue. 
Author: Anthony Lawton
Chair, Sussex Dolphin, family company which looks after the work of eminent children’s & historical fiction author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). Formerly CEO, chair & trustee of various charity, cultural & educational enterprises in UK. Sometimes a consultant.
Visiting Viroconium | M E Foley’s Anglo-American Experience
From another post at You Write (see tab above) I learn that M E Foley’s sixth-grade teacher:
brought back from Ireland a complete set of Rosemary Sutcliff’s books, even though I’m sure they were already available in the US. Maybe she felt books printed in Ireland were more valuable than local copies, but the domestic version I got from the library and read over and over had quite an impact. On my first trip to England—my honeymoon—the one thing I absolutely had to see was Hadrian’s Wall.
Source: Visiting Viroconium | M E Foley’s Anglo-American Experience Blog.
Lynne Ellison’s favourite book is The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
In April Christopher Posner posted at the ‘You Write’ page (see tab above) that I might like to add to the ‘Rosemary Sutcliff influenced and inspired’ list the English author Lynne Ellison, who wrote the novel The Green Bronze Mirror, about a teenage girl who goes back in time to ancient Rome, at the age of 14. So I do, belatedly! He alerted me that Lynne is still alive and living in Sheffield (UK). Her account of how she came to write this book, as well as an extract from it are available here.
Arthurian Fiction
A while back I was alerted by a commenter to “a nice academic site which has reviews of several works of Arthurian fiction”, here. The author is Professor Howard Wisemanof Griffith University in Australia, a theoretical scientist by trade. The Lantern Bearers and Sword of Sunset are reviewed here, and “come off better than most”.
Bath Festival Of Children’s Literature 2011
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the national newspaper of the same name, claims that “The Telegraph Bath Festival Of Children’s Literature has become one of the most important events for children’s literature in the world.” Is this true? Regular, or indeed occasional, readers of this blog may have better knowledge than I …
Apparently The Telegraph has been the media and title sponsor since the first event in 2007 – and this year’s festival in Bath features, according to them, some of the biggest names in children’s fiction. Roddy Doyle, Jeremy Strong, Judith Kerr, Cressida Cowell, Andy Stanton, David McKee and Bath-born Jacqueline Wilson (who was at the first festival) are just a few of the authors who will be taking part in events over 10 days.
The Festival runs from Friday 23rd September 2011 until Sunday 2nd October. We had better get some attention to Rosemary Sutcliff!
Source: Celebrate the Bath Festival Of Children’s Literature 2011
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 