The Eagle , film of the Rosemary Sutcliff book The Eagle of the Ninth, will now open across the USA on Friday, February 25th, 2011 (not this year in September). Focus Features’s press release yesterday says: Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff on hair the colour of brambles in Tristan and Iseult | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
Rosemary Sutcliff’s description in Tristan and Iseult of Iseult’s hair as “the colour of brambles when the sap rises in them in the springtime” has stayed in mind for TRIG in Ireland.
I looked out for that the spring after I first read it. I’d never noticed before how beautiful brambles are when the sap rises in them in the springtime. It’s an extraordinary colour.
Rosemary Sutcliff book illustrator Charles Keeping | Died May 20 1988 | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
Charles Keeping illustrated many Rosemary Sutcliff children’s books. He won many book awards including, twice, the Francis Williams Prize and the Library Association’s Kate Greenaway Medal. Mabel George, children’s books’ editor at Oxford University Press, Rosemary Sutcliff’s publisher, Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth on BBC Radio 7 | Sword and Sandals Radio | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
Rosemary Sutcliff bestseller The Eagle of the Ninth is on BBC Radio next week: it may be that the Beeb has been stirred by the coming film. Is this ‘sword and sandals’ or ‘swords and sandals’ radio?
Source: BBC Radio 7 Programmes – Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth – Episodes coming up.
Rosemary Sutcliff spelt wrong again | Rachel Cooke in The Observer
Rosemary Sutcliff, more and more in the news because of the coming film of her bestseller The Eagle of the Ninth, would regret that an august newspaper like The Observer spells her name wrong, as sadly others have done recently, including The Times, The Daily Mail, The Morning Star, Bedfordshire Libraries and several twitterers! It is NOT Rosemary Sutclffe (wrong with an ‘E’). Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 