Film The Eagle of the Ninth original author Rosemary Sutcliff, historical novelist and children’s writer, loved a good Western movie. Kevin Macdonald, director of the new The Eagle of the Ninth film, draws on Westerns. Channel 4 newsreader and reporter Samira Ahmed writes an intriguing story of her own journey with Westerns, from age 8, at the Touching from a Distance website on popular culture. Read More »
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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.
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The Eagle of the Ninth illustrator C Walter Hodges | Old Alleynian | Rosemary Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
The Eagle of the Ninth book by Rosemary Sutcliff, now also a film, was illustrated by C Walter Hodges (1909-2004) who was educated at London’s Dulwich College from 1922-25. The school has an intriguing, well organised record of illustrious former students. I had not known C Walter Hodges illustrated historical novelist Elizabeth Goudge, an important influence on Rosemary Sutcliff. Read More »
Horse and Pony Stories | Rosemary Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
A Rosemary Sutcliff children’s story features in a compilation of ‘ 36 horse and pony’ stories which I never even knew existed! The stories are also by such classic and modern authors of children’s literature as James Herriot, Ruby Ferguson, John Steinbeck, Rudyard Kipling,Read More »
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 (1920-92) 