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.
帝國戰記 The Eagle from Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth now showing in China
Rosemary Sutcliff and ‘The Eagle’ landed in The Spectator
Before heading off to Australia for a few weeks, I wrote about Rosemary Sutcliff and The Eagle at The Spectator Arts Blog. I hope they will not mind me reproducing it here:
This is a good spring for Rosemary Sutcliff: it sees the release of the film The Eagle, which is based on her bestselling 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth, which is set in Roman Britain. Were the book published for the first time this year, it might be promoted as a ‘young adult novel’. But that was not an available category in 1954. The novel was promoted as a children’s book, and reviewed as a significant contribution to children’s literature.
It has become a classic of children’s literature, Read More »
Writing with 19th century cadences but packing a 21st century punch
Returning to a full collection of Google alerts about “Rosemary Sutcliff” I noticed an interesting article in The New York Times which makes reference to Rosemary. Anne Foreman, the author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire,
wrote:
Once upon a time, Henry Treece, Roger Lancelyn Green, Rosemary Sutcliff and Elizabeth George Speare — all authors of historical novels for children — were household names. The genre was so vibrant that writers like Joan Aiken and Susan Cooper could veer into “alternate history” sagas, confident their young readers would have sufficient knowledge to appreciate the subtle interplay of historical “fact” and historical “fiction.”
Then came the downgrading of history from a discipline in its own right to a subset of something vaguer called the humanities. Read More »
BBC – Desert Island Discs – Castaway: Rosemary Sutcliff
In conversation with Roy Plomley, on October 1st 1983 Rosemary Sutcliff talked on the famous Desert Island Discs radio programme about her career and about the difficulties caused by arthritis since she was a child. She chose the eight records that she would take to the mythical island.
She also chose her book: Kim by Rudyard Kipling. And her luxury: flowers delivered daily by bottle.
All this courtesy of the new BBC Desert Island Discs archives – but sadly not (yet?) the archive of the programme itself.
via BBC – Desert Island Discs – Castaway : Rosemary Sutcliff.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 