NOVELAS HISTORICAS: El Usurpador del Imperio de Rosemary Sutcliff is a Spanish blog entry which I have yet to translate, but wanted to capture here.
Category: Novels, Stories & Books
Rosemary Sutcliff was an internationally renowned writer of historical novels, for children, young adults and adults. She also wrote stories for children. This category compiles the posts on this blog by title.
Rosemary Sutcliff’s children’s and young adult historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth on BBC TV in 1977
I remember the excitement with Rosemary Sutcliff when the BBC TV made a series of her historical novel for children and young adults The Eagle of the Ninth. She adored the portrayal of Marcus, the hero. I probably have old old video tapes of hers in the attic. I have no idea if the BBC still has copies in its archives and vaults . Does anyone know? It was broadcast in six episodes.
- Frontier Fort (4 September 1977)
- Esca (11 September 1977)
- Across the Frontier (18 September 1977)
- The Lost Legion (25 September 1977)
- The Wild Hunt (2 October 1977)
- Valedictory (9 October 1977)
source: IMDb
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 »
Review of Rosemary Sutcliff Arthurian Trilogy
In the blog A Fondness for Reading with ‘ …thoughts, memories, and ideas from a lifetime of reading’, a post entitled ‘Something Beautiful and Mysterious and Magical’ (May 23, 2007) is about Rosemary Sutcliff’s Arthurian Trilogy. Robin writes:Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff’s Fabulous Flower of Adonis
Emma-in-Oz wrote in her blog in 2008 that the Flower of Adonis was ‘fabulous’:
It’s one of her ‘adult’ novels. It has a difficult and fairly dark subject matter – the end of the Greek golden age of the fifth century. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 