Based on an interview in Details magazine, this report of Channing Tatum’s penis being burned on the movie set of The Eagle of the Ninth while filming the Rosemary Sutcliff novel of that name is indeed for real! Maybe it lowers the tone here, but what was good enough for The Huffington Post is good enough for me! 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.
Graphic interview with Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff on writing for children
“The themes of my children’s books are mostly quite adult, and in fact the difference between writing for children and for adults is, to me at any rate, only a quite small gear change.”
Source: Townsend, John Rowe. 1971. A Sense of Story. London: Longman p. 201
Rosemary Sutcliff influenced and inspired … Australian writer Keith Taylor
One of the pleasures, I discover, of actively nurturing this blog is that people have begun sending me their experiences with the books of Rosemary Sutcliff. Keith Taylor is an Australian writer who “loves good historical fiction” and found Rosemary Sutcliff a “powerful inspiration”, along with Mary Renault and Cecilia Holland. But he “didn’t discover them until later; Rosemary Sutcliff came first, when I was still in high school”.Read More »
Not quite what Rosemary Sutcliff had in mind for education?
Found by Google alert this morning, this despairing question related to a Rosemary Sutcliff Arthurian novel which itself made me despair about modern education. “I’m researching for my critical literary reasearch paper over (sic) The Light Beyond the Forest by Rosemary Sutcliff. I’ve used search engines such as Google and I can’t seem to find anything useful. The reviews I do find require payment to view the whole article. I’m sure there is information out there or I wouldn’t have been assigned this book. (My italics). I just need some help finding it.”
This is what education-as-schooling has reduced students to – Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 