As regular readers will see, despite my best intentions, I am still struggling to maintain this blog properly while starting a new full-time job. But here is a snippet of rather pleasing news….For Rosemary Sutcliff’s publishers (one of them) OUP, remind me that the the boxed set has just published. And The Eagle of the Ninth continues to be their best-selling eBook, which is rather satisfying for them, me and I hope enthusiasts who gather here!
Hunting interactive online sites about Romans and Roman Britain | Anyone know any good ones?
Over at the Rosemary Sutcliff page on Facebook which is connected with this site, Danielle Vaughan writes:
I am reading The Silver Branch to my 12 year old. We read The Eagle (of the Ninth) last September and he said it was his fave read of the year. However, I fear his sudden hormonal growth is preventing his full attention for this book … we are persevering, however, at the moment
She wonders (as I do now) if if there are supplementary online roman interactive sites they could also “look at to ‘set the scene’ as it were “. Are there? Can anyone help? Please share this elsewhere so we can see if the much vaunted collective of the cloud can help!
… clearing off letters … (Rosemary Sutcliff Diary, 15/9/89)
September 15th Thursday. Joan gone again, very het up about her Canadian holiday. Clearing off letters now that the postal strike seems, with luck, to be largely over. G came in the evening, very distrait.
Joan was one of Rosemary Sutcliff’s housekeepers, who took it in turns to live with her and keep house for several weeks at a time.
“Distrait”: absent-minded; distracted (from Collins Concise Dictionary).
Silence from rosemarysutcliff.com curator ending soon!
Apologies everyone who reads here regularly, and to those who seek very up-to-date posts. I have been taking a break from keeping this site and blog refreshed with new posts, and from curating other material, for some holiday, and now in recent weeks, starting a new full-time job! (Warden of the Mary Ward Settlement, which includes The Mary Ward (Adult Education) Centre, and the Mary Ward Legal Centre, as well as various community-based initiatives). Joining is going to absorb my attention for a few weeks yet. Meanwhile, I am glad various of you have been conversing elsewhere here, not least about the welcome availability of recordings of the 1970s TV version of The Eagle of the Ninth.
Obituary published on her death in 1992 for historical novelist and children’s writer Rosemary Sutcliff
I missed out posting on the anniversary of historical novelist and children’s writer Rosemary Sutcliff’s death. One obituary was in The Independent newspaper.
Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novels opened the eyes of a generation of children to the past. They also set a new standard for children’s historical fiction because of their insight, passion and commitment.
Sutcliff was a demanding writer who expected a lot from her readers which is why her books are also wholly satisfying for adults. She evokes time and place with an incredibly sure touch and – once she had found her true voice with The Eagle of the Ninth in 1954 – a sharp ear for the dialogue of the past.Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 