NOVELAS HISTORICAS: El Usurpador del Imperio de Rosemary Sutcliff is a Spanish blog entry which I have yet to translate, but wanted to capture here.
Tag: historical fiction
The Eagle of the Ninth | Film and Book | Rosemary Sutcliff Review of the Week
The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel and children’s book now being filmed, then only a book , was reviewed by Zbigniew Tycienski in June 2009. Zbigniew grew up in south-east Poland but settled in Edinburgh, Scotland
One may at first conclude that Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) is a book for boys about men and masculinity. The women of the book inhabit a shadowy, backstage world, of service and mothering, and the hero of the story, Marcus Aquila, only finds an ally in the twelve-year old Cottia because she is not so much a girl as a friendly, faithful dog.Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff’s Fabulous Flower of Adonis
Emma-in-Oz wrote in her blog in 2008 that the Flower of Adonis was ‘fabulous’:
It’s one of her ‘adult’ novels. It has a difficult and fairly dark subject matter – the end of the Greek golden age of the fifth century. Read More »
Robin Hood book wins 1971 Zilveren Griffel book award in Holland
Rosemary Sutcliff’s ‘De roemruchte daden van Robin Hood’ (The Chronicles of Robin Hood) – a retelling of the story of Robin Hood – was awarded a Zilveren Griffel book award in 1971 in Holland. This is a Childrens/Young Adult book award. Anita Meulstee from the Netherlands, on Library Thing, alerted meRead More »
Library Thing Polyanna loves Simon
Lovely, lovely book; one of my favourite books ever. It’s about the English Civil War, and manages to convey information about and the perspective of, both sides pretty fairly, which is rare in books on the subject. Although Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 