Rosemary Sutcliff was astonished but delighted when her novel about Boudicca (often wrongly spelt Boadicea) – Song for a Dark Queen -won The Other Award for fiction. It was an award for books which were determinedly egalitarian and respectful of women. She was not sure what those responsible for it would have thought of her Telegraph-reading Tory politics. Read More »
Category: Criticism, Reviews, Research, Awards
Posts on rosemarysutcliff.com, Rosemary Sutcliff’s official website, about Literary Criticism, Reviews and Research about her; and about national and international Awards she received.
Using LibraryThing to catalogue Sutcliff books
I have been using LibraryTing to catalogue all Sutcliff editions and translations. Last night I realised I was becoming rather obsessed as I bored on to some friends about it. Read More »
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 »
Sutcliff titles and reviews on Goodreads
The Goodreads web community has lists of editions and translations of Rosemary Sutcliff’s novels and stories. Thus this is the page about The Eagle of the Ninth editions. There are over 500 reviews of The Eagle of the Ninth here on the site.
Kjoek children’s books website in Holland covers Rosemary Sutcliff
The lively Dutch website Kjoek! which claims that on it ‘you can find anything about children’s books’, writes about Rosemary Sutcliff here, along with other children’s writers, kinderboekenschrijvers in Dutch I think! Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 