For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
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Trawling the internet, researching libraries and databases, and occasionally from material sent to me, I discover things I did not know much about, or indeed at all! There can be more than one Discovery of the Day.
Rosemary Sutcliff’s name came up when Philippa Dickinson, the managing director of Random House Children’s Books, was having a conversation in a bar which included Chris Priestly, who is an author himself. Before she had to leave, writes Chris:
Philippa began a sentence ‘I remember Rosemary telling me…’. It seems silly to say it, given that I’m a writer myself, but I’d sort of forgotten Rosemary Sutcliff was a real person that someone could remember talking to. I was deeply impressed.
The Eagle of the Ninth is by Rosemary Sutcliff (sic). Too many people spell the name of author of historical fiction and children’s books Rosemary Sutcliff (correct) wrongly – with an E, as in ‘Rosemary Sutcliffe’ (incorrect). This is particularly surprising and rather more disappointing when it is someone whose Twitter biography describes them as ‘Head of Digital’ at a prestigious British publisher’s Education Department; especially when the publisher has been one of Rosemary’s publishers for more than 50 years! However, if their typing is anywhere near as bad as my own, it might be fairer for me to think of this as a typing error rather than a spelling error. In any event I tweeted them!
This spelling problem will only increase with material about the film from The Eagle of the Ninth, The Eagle. I catch some of the errors on the web with a Google Alertfor “Rosemary Sutcliffe”. In fact, I also found from the alert that the funders and production company for the film The Eagle, Focus Features, got this wrong a few weeks ago. Now I check, they have still not put it right.
Rosemary Sutcliff’s original story The Eagle of the Ninth gives rise to another TV advertisement from the USA for the film The Eagle with Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell (and Donald Sutherland) based on the book.
Desterrado is the Spanish title of Rosemary Sutcliff’s Outcast, first published in England in 1955
Único superviviente de un naufragio, Beric se crió en un poblado celta, aunque fue desde el principio un forastero. El viejo druida insistió en que llevaba la maldición del mar, y cuando años más tarde la muerte llega al poblado, los dedos acusadores señalan al joven Beric.
Desterrado por su tribu, Beric se queda sin familia ni amigos. Sin casa ni dinero, deberá sobrevivir por sus propios medios en el implacable mundo romano, en el que el peligro y la muerte acechan a cada vuelta del camino.
Desterrado pertenece a la apasionante serie de novelas sobre Britania que escribió la aclamada Rosemary Sutcliff, una de las grandes escritoras del género del siglo XX, y a principios de año nos llegará la primera adaptación cinematográfica de su novela más conocida, El águila de la Novena Legión.
Rosemary Sutcliff’s name came up when Philippa Dickinson, the managing director of Random House Children’s Books, was having a conversation in a bar which included Chris Priestly, who is an author himself. Before she had to leave, writes Chris:
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 