For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
A page on this website, tabbed at the top of the screen, summarises most of Rosemary Sutcliff’s fiction and non-fiction books, including all her historical fiction for children, young adults, and adults; also her autobiography. I have not really fathomed ‘search engine optimisation’, but it seems it may be useful also to reproduce the text in a post. So here it is, as it stands today, January 29th, 2012.
All dates are the date of first publication. Many titles have links to other posts about them on this website.Read More »
Of Simon by Rosemary Sutcliff, written some sixty years ago, the Washington Post and Times Herald in the USA (April 4th, 1954) wrote: ‘it is a colourful story…..(and) Miss Sutcliff‘s interest in character makes even the minor characters interesting … she is adept too at communicating a sense of the Devon countryside”. The story?
All of England was taking sides for the King of Parliament in the 1640’s.Read More »
I have posted today about education and Facebook! Time to return to more central matters … Late in her life, one interviewer asked Rosemary Sutcliff about the sources which inspired her version of the Arthurian legend in her best-selling book Sword at Sunset. Read More »
I have been trying to nudge upwards the number of followers of (people who “like”) the Facebook ‘page’ on Rosemary Sutcliff. Progress is slow. However the ‘viral effect’ is moving in the right direction, whatever exactly it is. (I have yet to get my head around that, no doubt simple, metric).
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 