Die englische Autorin Rosemary Sutcliff wurde 1920 geboren. Sehr früh erkrankte sie an Arthritis und wurde nach der Schule an der Bideford School of Arts zur Miniaturmalerin ausgebildet. Read More »
Category: Autobiography & Biography
Posts on the rosemarysutcliff.com weblog about the life and thoughts of Rosemary Sutcliff, including what she wrote and said about writing and her own craft.
Rosemary Sutcliff, Karen Cushman want life in the bones of history via books | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
Rosemary Sutcliff and Karen Cushman are ‘moved to write historical fiction’ for the same reason
I write historical fiction because those are the stories that take me over. Rosemary Sutcliff, writer of gorgeous historical novels for young people, said, ‘Historians and teachers, you and your kind can produce the bare bones; I and my kind breathe life into them.’ That’s what I’m interested in — the life in those bones.
Rosemary Sutcliff The Eagle of the Ninth author on being a person and writer with disabilities
Rosemary Sutcliff, a most able writer of children’s books and historical fiction (‘co-writer’ of film The Eagle (of the Ninth)), spoke of the ‘surprising loss of privacy’ when she wrote about living with her disability for the ‘Emotions in Focus’ exhibition at The Roundhouse (London) which celebrated the 1981 International Year of Disabled People.
Career-wise, I’m one of the lucky ones. My job, as a writer of books, is one of the few in which physical disability presents hardly any problems. I would claim that it presents no problems at all but my kind of book needs research, and research is more difficult for a disabled person. Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff started school at ten, left at fourteen, but was a lifelong learner
Rosemary Sutcliff, distinguished writer of children’s books and historical fiction, was rightly described as ‘impish’ and ‘irreverent’ by The Guardian when she died. But partly because she was playful, she was a learner all her life.
“When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.”
- Roland Barthes, quoted by Jeni Smith, author of new blog The Heart of Teaching
- More on Rosemary Sutcliff’s Life and Work here
Rosemary Sutcliff on English Civil War children’s book, historical novel Simon 1953
Rosemary Sutcliff said about the historical accuracy of her children’s book Simon written early in her career in 1953, set in the English Civil War of the 17th century:
“Most history books deal with the final campaign of the civil war in a single paragraph, and the Battle of Torrington they seldom mention at all. In this story I have tried to show what that final campaign in the west was like, and to re-fight the battles fought over my own countryside. Most of the people I’ve written about really lived; Torrington Church really did blow up, with 200 Royalist prisoners and their Parliamentary Guard inside, and no one has ever known how it happened, though Chaplain Joshua Sprigg left it on record that the deed was done by ‘one Watts, a desperate villain’ “.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 