Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92), author of The Eagle of the Ninth book, now a film due in February 2011 to be called The Eagle, as well as a TV and radio series, wrote some sixty children’s books, historical novels, and stories. This blog reviews and covers all the books by Rosemary Sutcliff: every book for children, adults and young adults, and related TV, radio and films (movies) of the books. Read More »
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.
Rosemary Sutcliff novel and Greek hero Alcibiades help classics undergraduate
Twenty-two years ago today, in an article about putting right the wrongs attributed to historically famous figures, Sarah Jane Evans wrote about how Rosemary Sutcliff and Alcibiades (in The Flower of Adonis) once helped her as an undergraduate student of Classics.
Rosemary Sutcliff once got me out of a tight spot. Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff | Died, July 23rd, 1992 | Anniversary of the Day
A sad anniversary today: Rosemary Sutcliff died unexpectedly and too young on this day July 23rd, in 1992. Quite when July 23rd starts and finishes depends where you are in the world reading this; for me in England tomorrow is July 23rd.
It is the Feast Day of St Anne or Susanna, St Apollinaris of Ravenna, St Bridget of Sweden, St John Cassian, St Liborius, St Romula and her Companions, and The Three Wise Men. The births, deaths and events that happened that I know of also on this day include:
Rosemary Sutcliff | An Unforgettable Writer of Fantasy and more| Sutcliff Review of the Week
Rosemary Sutcliff, children’s writer and historical novelist, is “unforgettable” to Keith Taylor, himself a writer, in a web article which reader of this blog Anne McFadgen has alerted me to (Thank you!). Her work, he writes, is “memorable'” because “decades after he has read her books scenes “from all of them come to my mind’s eye as vividly as if I’d seen them happen”. Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff’s world of The Eagle of the Ninth is real | An High Tory perspective
Rosemary Sutcliff, author of the children’s book and historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth, set in Roman Britain, told me more than once that she believed in re-incarnation and that she had lived in Roman times. Hence, she believed, her feel for that period. So – as I have posted before – I was struck by Barendina Smedley’s words in her blog Fugitive Ink on reading The Eagle of the Ninth for the first time as an adult not a child:
It really does feel as if the world in which she set her characters was, in some sense, as real to her as the characters themselves … Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
