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 won the Boston-Globe Horn Book Award for Tristan and Iseult in 1972. She also won the (UK) Library Association Carnegie Award for The Lantern Bearers in 1959; was highly commended by the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1974, and nominated in 1968; the Phoenix Children’s Book Award for The Mark of the Horse Lord in 1985, and for The Shining Company in 2010; and the The Carnegie Medal for the Lantern Bearers in 1959.
Rosemary Sutcliff “followed ” in Geoffrey Trease’s footsteps – was the correct claim of a Morning Star article but they were wrong about when. And the newspaper spelled her name wrong (with an ‘E’). But the article The man who told the people’s stories was intriguing about children’s writer Geoffrey Trease. I wrote to the editor:Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff once wrote (quoted in the Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature):
“there’s a great loneliness about having any kind of handicap in a world which in general doesn’t, however much you get to the stage where neither you nor anybody else notices. You tend to create somebody on your side of the barrier who will talk your own language.”
(I have blogged an article she wrote about disability before)
An early unpublished book was called Wild Sunrise. It was about the Roman invasion of Britain told from the British viewpoint. The hero was Cradoc, a name Rosemary used later in The Eagle of the Ninth and in Sun Horse, Moon Horse. (Her father, who I knew as Uncle George, had a naval hero called Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, who went down with his flagship at the battle of Coronel in 1914). Wild Sunrise disappeared, which was as well, she said in her memoir Blue Remembered Hills (1983), ‘because so much of me was in it, naked and defenceless’
Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Article on Rosemary by Gilian Avery
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 »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 