Rosemary Sutcliff’s novels ‘set a new standard for children’s historical fiction because of their insight, passion and commitment’ said The Independent in its obituary in 1992 about the famous chidren’s author. Mind you, she wrote for adults too and some books were marketed as adult historical fiction (like Sword at Sunset which topped the bestseller lists).Read More »
Twitterer reading Rosemary Sutcliff The Sword and The Circle for World Book Day
Twitter is perhaps a wonderful thing? It tells me that Nicki is reading The Sword and the Circle for World Book Day. She twitted: 5 of 5 stars to The Saxon Settler by Rosemary Sutcliff. I have been urging people to read The Eagle of the Ninth for the day! If you use twitter, search under #worldbookday and see @shanaqui as well as @rsutcliff .
The Eagle of the Ninth lost in translation
The ever usful Google Alert points me to all manner of items linked with Rosemary Sutcliff. The Google Translator is less reliable. Thus read and translate a paragraph of a german blog:Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff’s award-winning historical novel Song for a Dark Queen reviewed in The Times in 1978
Rosemary Sutcliff was astonished but delighted when her novel about Boudicca (often wrongly spelt Boadicea) – Song for a Dark Queen -won The Other Award for fiction. It was an award for books which were determinedly egalitarian and respectful of women. She was not sure what those responsible for it would have thought of her Telegraph-reading Tory politics. Read More »
The Morning Star better than The Times in spelling Rosemary Sutcliff correctly
I do hate it when people who should know better do not spell Rosemary Sutcliff (correct spelling) correctly, using Sutcliffe with an E (wrong spelling). The Times last week, so called newspaper of record, spelled her name wrong in an article about the film of The Eagle of the Ninth. Hooray, for communism or socialism I say, although Rosemary Sutcliff – a Tory Sussex lady – would not have agreed … Published in the Morning Star under the heading ‘The ins and outs of Trease and Sutcliff’ is the letter I wrote to then when they spelled her wrong. I still have not even an apology from The Times , a mistake being relayed around the internet, and pointed out to The Times at the same time as I alerted The Morning Star.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 