Posts about authors other than Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff often said she wrote “for children aged 8 to 88” or sometimes “9 to 90”. She once said:
“The themes of my children’s books are mostly quite adult, and in fact the difference between writing for children and for adults is, to me at any rate, only a quite small gear change.”
It is a change of gear clearly beyond author Martin Amis! Read More »
Reviewing past posts, I am reminded that thirty years ago in 1981, British publishers announced their choices for the top 20 (then) living British writers. Rosemary Sutcliff was among them. At the time, the chairman of the selectors said:
In a storehouse so rich, there are far more than twenty good , even great, writers. What we have tried to do is select authors whose record of publication has provided them with critical acclaim and public recognition.
She ‘beat’ onto the list such distinguished people (who were not in the top 20) as Robert Graves (the poet and novelist), J.B. Priestley (who had a 60-year literary career), Alan Sillitoe, Kingsley Amis, Muriel Spark, Dick Francis and Daphne du Maurier. Lord Snowdon took a picture which for copyright reasons I cannot post. I must track down the original list (can anyone help?).
Author Simon Scarrow dedicates to Rosemary Sutcliff his new young adult book Gladiator: Fight for Freedom. I am alerted to this by reader and commenter on this blog ‘JB’ (5 Feb on post here). Thank you JB , for I was unaware of the dedication – or the book – and am off to get it.
For Rosemary Sutcliffe (sic) who has inspired so many of us to love history.
Oh Dear Sutcliff spelt wrongly again, with an E. In fact JB writes:
… (it) has an interesting plot and a dedication to Rosemary Sutcliffe (sic). Mr Scarrow speaks highly of Miss Sutcliff and whilst I do not blame him for the typo, I do wonder who does his proof reading. It would be the work of a moment to check the spelling of Miss Sutcliff’s surname.
Of historical novelist and children’s writer Rosemary Sutcliff, Canadian K V Johansen (author of The Warlocks of Talverdin books) has posted (via the You Write! tab):
You asked for mentions of other material on Sutcliff. I talked about her a bit in the chapter on retellings of the Arthurian and Robin Hood legends in my book on the history of children’s fantasy literature, Quests and Kingdoms (2005). Managed to sneak in some mention of her Romans, too, via The Lantern Bearers and Sword at Sunset. I think Rosemary Sutcliff is up there just below Tolkien in the “what shaped my deepest imagination and why I’m a writer writing the kinds of things I write” list.
Of this website for Rosemary Sutcliff she kindly said Read More »
The Eagle of the Ninth and Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff are two of best-selling author and illustrator Philip Reeve‘s favourite books, as recounted on his own website.
… or I could have chosen Knight’s Fee, or The Lantern Bearers, or Sun-horse, Moon-horse, or Frontier Wolf… Rosemary Sutcliff is one of my favourite children’s authors, and I doubt she ever wrote a bad book, but these were the two I liked best when I was growing up. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 