I get cross when people who should know better spell Rosemary Sutcliff’s name wrong – as Sutcliffe (sic). It is Sutcliff (sic). If you are doing research in databases, or on the web or wherever, it is a good idea always to search for Sutcliffe (with an E) as well as Sutcliff! If I had not done that, I would not have discovered that in the UK’s newspaper of record (at that time), in a list of 50 books all children should read (The Times, 19 Feb 1988), ‘Eagles of the Ninth’ (sic) was recommended for 12 to 18 year olds ( the proper title is ‘The Eagle of the Ninth’), and it was said to be by ‘Rosemary Sutcliffe”.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.
Spanish Film Site on Eagle of the Ninth
A Spanish film website wrote at length on the coming film of Eagle of the Ninth. (Google translator comes into its own for non-Spanish speakers like myself).
Historical novels website on Rosemary Sutcliff
The website historicalnovels.info lists ‘over 5,000 historical novels by time and place’. There are interesting articles about books related to particular periods in history as well as items on various authors including one on Rosemary Sutcliff by ‘Annis’. (Links in the posting connect to entries about Rosemary’s books on an American bookseller’s site.)Read More »
The Illustrators of Rosemary Sutcliff’s books | Charles Keeping, Alan Lee and more
The major illustrators of Rosemary Sutcliff‘s books were Charles Keeping, Alan Lee, Victor Ambrus, C Walter Hodges, Richard Kennedy, and Emma Chichester Clark. The books they illustrated included: Read More »
Anthony Higgins in Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth on BBC TV in 1977
This TV series of the Rosemary Sutcliff novel The Eagle of the Ninth is not available anywhere I have found; this is some seconds at BBC Togas on TV. This video was made for http://www.anthonyhiggins.narod.ru . There was a post about the series a few years back on the excellent (but now silent) blueremembered.blogspot.com
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 