Rosemary Sutcliff disliked history at school, which she only started aged ten. And she missed much of the usual childhood activity and friends because of prolonged illness and hospital stays – she had Stills disease.Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff Dutch translations
Anita, a Dutch reader, has provided me with a bibliography of all Dutch translations of Rosemary Sutcliff’s books. The Internet works! For I made contact with her via Library Thing. Previously someone unknown to me of course, she has done a complete list. Thank you!Read More »
Historical novelist and children’s author Rosemary Sutcliff had imagination, morality, humour, justice
Children’s author Joan Aiken writes that to be a children’s writer, you need imagination, iconoclasm, a deep instinctive morality, a large vocabulary, a sense of humor and a powerful sense of pity and justice. Rosemary Sutcliff has all that and more.
source: The English Journal, Vol. 74, No. 7 (Nov., 1985), pp. 83-84
Rosemary Sutcliff influenced and inspired … Reading University lecturer Matthew Nicholls
Reading Sutcliff’s famous historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth helped enthuse University of Reading lecturer Matthew Nicholls as a child about Roman history. His article in The Guardian Notes and Queries led me to ask what it was about the famous novel which he found so ‘wonderful’
… I can remember reading The Eagle of the Ninth when I was about 7 or 8; at that age I was starting Latin at School and showing an interest in Romans, so my parents took me off to Wall near Lichfield where we lived and must have bought me the book too. It made a great impression, Read More »
The beautiful, magical, mysterious heritage of the King Arthur legend for Rosemary Sutcliff
The Sword and The Circle is the first part of The Eagle of the Ninth author Rosemary Sutcliff’s trilogy of tellings of the King Arthur legend. In the introduction she wrote about the real man Arthur.
Many people believe, as I do, that behind the legends of King Arthur as we know them today, there stands a real man. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 