NOVELAS HISTORICAS: El Usurpador del Imperio de Rosemary Sutcliff is a Spanish blog entry which I have yet to translate, but wanted to capture here.
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’s children’s and young adult historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth on BBC TV in 1977
I remember the excitement with Rosemary Sutcliff when the BBC TV made a series of her historical novel for children and young adults The Eagle of the Ninth. She adored the portrayal of Marcus, the hero. I probably have old old video tapes of hers in the attic. I have no idea if the BBC still has copies in its archives and vaults . Does anyone know? It was broadcast in six episodes.
- Frontier Fort (4 September 1977)
- Esca (11 September 1977)
- Across the Frontier (18 September 1977)
- The Lost Legion (25 September 1977)
- The Wild Hunt (2 October 1977)
- Valedictory (9 October 1977)
source: IMDb
The Eagle of the Ninth | Film and Book | Rosemary Sutcliff Review of the Week
The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel and children’s book now being filmed, then only a book , was reviewed by Zbigniew Tycienski in June 2009. Zbigniew grew up in south-east Poland but settled in Edinburgh, Scotland
One may at first conclude that Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) is a book for boys about men and masculinity. The women of the book inhabit a shadowy, backstage world, of service and mothering, and the hero of the story, Marcus Aquila, only finds an ally in the twelve-year old Cottia because she is not so much a girl as a friendly, faithful dog.Read More »
Review of Rosemary Sutcliff Arthurian Trilogy
In the blog A Fondness for Reading with ‘ …thoughts, memories, and ideas from a lifetime of reading’, a post entitled ‘Something Beautiful and Mysterious and Magical’ (May 23, 2007) is about Rosemary Sutcliff’s Arthurian Trilogy. Robin writes:Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff’s Fabulous Flower of Adonis
Emma-in-Oz wrote in her blog in 2008 that the Flower of Adonis was ‘fabulous’:
It’s one of her ‘adult’ novels. It has a difficult and fairly dark subject matter – the end of the Greek golden age of the fifth century. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 