In The Scotsman on Kevin Macdonald, Oscar-winning Scottish director of the film of Rosemary Sutcliff‘s The Eagle of the Ninth, said : “I read the book when I was a kid, and it was just something that had always stuck in my mind as a great mystery adventure.” Like Rosemary, his love is great story-telling:Read More »
Category: Newspapers
1963 Arthurian bestseller Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff reviewed in New York Timesf Review of the Week:
On April 5 in 1987 Patricia O’Conner wrote in The New York Times that: “Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel (Sword at Sunset) reinvents King Arthur, and the result, while far from the accepted legend, is ‘an expression of the purest affection for the Arthur of her heart’ ” as Robert Payne had said in The Book Review in 1963. He had written: ”He is a living presence who moves in a brilliantly lit and fantastic landscape only remotely connected with ancient England. And why not?”. Rosemary loved the fact that it went to the top of the UK adult fiction bestseller lists.
- See here for a brief summary of this re-telling of the King Arthur legend and all other Rosemary Sutcliff books.
- More on this blog about Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Economist praises Blood Feud by Rosemary Sutcliff
Every morning, at the same time, Rosemary Sutcliff would walk though to her study where, leaning on the walking stick she always used, first she would open her post and then read the Daily Telegraph. I do not think that I ever saw her reading The Economist, nor indeed did I ever see a copy of it in her study in Sussex. But I am sure that she would have read and welcomed its review of Blood Feud in 1976:
The chasm between children’s and adults’ literature narrows to a crack in historical fiction. In Blood Feud it is scarcely visible at all,Read More »
The Morning Star better than The Times in spelling Rosemary Sutcliff correctly
I do hate it when people who should know better do not spell Rosemary Sutcliff (correct spelling) correctly, using Sutcliffe with an E (wrong spelling). The Times last week, so called newspaper of record, spelled her name wrong in an article about the film of The Eagle of the Ninth. Hooray, for communism or socialism I say, although Rosemary Sutcliff – a Tory Sussex lady – would not have agreed … Published in the Morning Star under the heading ‘The ins and outs of Trease and Sutcliff’ is the letter I wrote to then when they spelled her wrong. I still have not even an apology from The Times , a mistake being relayed around the internet, and pointed out to The Times at the same time as I alerted The Morning Star.
Geoffrey Trease influenced Rosemary Sutcliff
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 (1920-92) 