Rosemary Sutcliff helped write a film, Ghost Story, that starred the wonderful, sultry Marianne Faithful. I never knew this: I would have remembered! There is a DVD available, reviewed here. British actress Penelope Keith was in the film too.
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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.
Children’s writer Rosemary Sutcliff on Kipling | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
Rosemary Sutcliff always acknowledged a debt to and love for Rudyard Kipling. She wrote a small book, a monograph, about him. I have just discovered this article in the journal of the Kipling Society, The Kipling Journal, in 1965. She wrote:
” … other people write about things from the outside in, but Kipling writes about them from the inside out.”
Earl Spencer life changed by The Eagle of the Ninth | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
In 2008 Earl Spencer chose Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth as the book that had changed his life. On International Literacy Day in 2008 author Sebastian Faulks launched a campaign for Book Aid International ‘Books Change Lives’. The plan was to send thousands of books a year to communities in Africa. The campaign asked a number of celebrities and public figures to choose a book that had ‘changed their life’. Joanna Lumley chose The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Conservative leader, David Cameron picked Robert Graves’ account of life in the World War I trenches Goodbye to All That.
A mystical communion with the past
(April 17, 2010) see revised, updated post here.
School class reads Rosemary Sutcliff’s Black Ships before Troy | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
The ever useful Google Alerts tells me this morning that in California (USA) this week Mrs Miller’s History class has begun to read and discuss Rosemary Sutcliff’s retelling of The Iliad – Black Ships Before Troy. Good choice!
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 