Source: British Television/Tise Vahimagi- Oxford University Press, 1994. © British Film Institute.
Category: The Eagle of the Ninth
Roman Ninth Legion’s guilty secret | Rosemary Sutcliff Google Watch
Roman legionnaires, like those in Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman novel The Eagle of the Ninth, according to The Observer newspaper:
… have been the subject of innumerable romantic books and films, including the forthcoming epic, The Eagle (of the Ninth), directed by Kevin Macdonald. But new evidence … has revealed that life for a soldier in the Roman Ninth Legion had a more mundane side. A newly excavated site near Healam Bridge fort, North Yorkshire, a military outpost used by the Ninth, has shown soldiers there had their own industrial estate nearby to provide them with clothes, pottery and other equipment. And, although this is not actually new information, they wore socks with their sandals …
Film, Books, TV, Radio | The Eagle (of the Ninth) | Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92), author of The Eagle of the Ninth book, now a film due in February 2011 to be called The Eagle, as well as a TV and radio series, wrote some sixty children’s books, historical novels, and stories. This blog reviews and covers all the books by Rosemary Sutcliff: every book for children, adults and young adults, and related TV, radio and films (movies) of the books. Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff | An Unforgettable Writer of Fantasy and more| Sutcliff Review of the Week
Rosemary Sutcliff, children’s writer and historical novelist, is “unforgettable” to Keith Taylor, himself a writer, in a web article which reader of this blog Anne McFadgen has alerted me to (Thank you!). Her work, he writes, is “memorable'” because “decades after he has read her books scenes “from all of them come to my mind’s eye as vividly as if I’d seen them happen”. Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff’s world of The Eagle of the Ninth is real | An High Tory perspective
Rosemary Sutcliff, author of the children’s book and historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth, set in Roman Britain, told me more than once that she believed in re-incarnation and that she had lived in Roman times. Hence, she believed, her feel for that period. So – as I have posted before – I was struck by Barendina Smedley’s words in her blog Fugitive Ink on reading The Eagle of the Ninth for the first time as an adult not a child:
It really does feel as if the world in which she set her characters was, in some sense, as real to her as the characters themselves … Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
