The Eagle of the Ninth author Rosemary Sutcliff, children’s writer of historical fiction, has won the ‘highly prestigious’ Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) 2010 Phoenix Award in the USA – see here – for her historical novel The Shining Company. The prize is for a book which did not win awards when it first came out but whose reputation has grown over 20 years.Read More »
The Story of the award-winning historical novel The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff
In 600 A.D., many years after King Arthur defeated the Saxons, the tribes of Britain are again threatened by invaders who are gaining strength in the East. Prosper and his loyal bondsman, Conn, answer the call of King Mynydogg to join the fighting forces of Prince Gorthyna and the highly skilled Shining Company.Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff wins ChLA 2010 Phoenix Award in USA for high literary merit
Research Centres on Children and Young People’s Literature and Writing in UK
I have been tracking down the main research centres in England where scholars, students and teachers might have a particular interest in Rosemary Sutcliff’s writing, and issues related to her writing, as well as to historical fiction and story-telling. Thus I had an idea who to ask Read More »
University of Reading lecturer turned on to Roman History by Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth
Matthew Nicholls, lecturer in classics and senior tutor at the University of Reading said today in the Guardian that Rosemary Sutcliff’s “wonderful” book The Eagle of the Ninth helped turn him on to Roman history. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 