Rosemary Sutcliff

Rosemary Sutcliff Bibliography

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A listing (with images of covers) on the Fantastic Fiction site.

Film of The Eagle of the Ninth

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According to the Scotsman newpaper some two years ago, there are three films in preparation related to the disappearance of the Ninth Legion. The report notes that "Duncan Kenworthy, London-based producer of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually, acquired the film rights to Rosemary's The Eagle of the Ninth, which has sold more than a million copies since its appearance in 1954, and was

Tullie House - museum and art gallery in Carlisle, Cumbria, Lake District, UK

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Those who read The Eagle of the Ninth will be thrilled (according to the Guardian!), as I was, to know that in Tullie House Museum in Carlisle is a tile stamped with the insignia of the Roman legion that vanished from the records after being based in northern Britain. (This is the subject of the novel).

Sutcliff and the North East of England

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Alan Myers has compiled an "A to Z of the many writers of the past who had a significant connection" with the North-East of England. He writes of Rosemary: "One of the most distinguished children's writers of our times, Rosemary Sutcliff wrote over thirty books , some of them now considered classics. She sets several of her best-known works in Roman and Dark Age Britain, giving her the

Commentary on the Roman Britain historical novels

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Eric Eller describes himself as "a recovering chemical engineer. After more than enough years puttering around chemical plants, scholarly publishing sounded like more fun and he now works in Publications for the American Chemical Society. Somewhere along the way (I) got an MA in Liberal Studies from the College of Notre Dame, kick-starting (my) interest in literature". This commentary on

Seven Best Historical Children's Novels

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I find that Amanda Craig, a writer herself, has cited two books by Rosemary in her Seven Best Historical novels, on Amazon. They are Capricorn Bracelet and The Eagle of the Ninth. If any reader has made similar lists, do tell me.I have never read any of Amanda's novels, but my wife says that Vicious Circle (a satire on the literary world) was excellent.

More spelling Sutcliff wrong...NOT with an e!!

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Great that a bookshop in England picks Rosemary's Eagle of the Ninth as a 'top pick'. Shame they cannot spell her name right....but then again nor can Penguin Books ... and nor can Jeremy Ford who recalls his illustraions related to her books ... and nor can this American site

Writing for ages 8 to 88 ...

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Rosemary once said of her writing: "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." (Townsend, John Rowe. 1971. A Sense of Story. London: Longman p201)

Book Awards won include ...

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Library Association Carnegie Award for The Lantern Bearers in 1959 Boston-Globe Horn Book Award for Tristan and Iseult in 1972Highly Commended by the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1974The Other Award for Song for a Dark Queen in 1978Phoenix Children's Book Award for The Mark of the Horse Lord in 1985

The Lantern Bearers: A Review

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With The Lantern Bearers Rosemary won the Carnegie Medal in 1959 . This is a review from America.I discovered Rosemary Sutcliff in my early teens, and she quickly became one of my favorite authors. I can still vividly recapture the magic of reading her books. It was a real pleasure to return to The Lantern Bearers, which I first read when I was about thirteen, and find the magic still

US Notes for Teachers

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Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: publish some of Rosemary's books in the US. They put notes for teachers on the web.

Books in Danish

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Rosemary's books have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Hayao Miyazaki likes Rosemary's books

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Hayao Miyazaki is, I understand from the website of Diana Wynn Jones, one of Japan's foremost living fantasy film-makers. A correspondent writes "In the 1980s and 90s, his animations stormed the Japanese box-office, and his recent animé, Princess Mononoke, is currently the biggest-earning Japanese film ever. Miyazaki is a fan of such books as The Wizard of Earthsea; The Prisoner of Zenda; the

Dutch information (I think)

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I found this today while searching with Copernic.

Some covers

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Rosemary Sutcliff in Canada

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Random House publishes some of Rosemary's books in Canada.

Eagle Of The Ninth : The 1976 BBC drama

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Details of the BBC version of Eagle of the Ninth. Rosemary loved the portrayal of Marcus by Anthony Higgins. Patrick Maldahide played Cradoc. (He is currently in Sahara!)

Some pictures of Rosemary

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ON BEING A DISABLED ARTIST

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This brief piece was written by Rosemary for the "Emotions in Focus" exhibition of erotic art by disabled people mounted as a celebration of the International Year of Disabled People 1981, which was opened at The Round House, London by Victor Lownes and sponsored by The Arts Council of Great Britain .Career-wise, I'm one of the lucky ones. My job, as a writer of books, is one of the few in which

PLEASE: Rosemary Sutcliff without an e!

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I was delighted to find that a primary school in Kent is recommending Rosemary to students and parents; but a little dismayed that they spell her name wrong. In fact, if you Google 'Rosemary Sutcliffe' with an e (as I have just done) you find many versions of this error in schools and in bookshops. Indeed, one of her publshers made this mistake in the promotional blurb for one of her books that

Rosemary Sutcliff - Factbites

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So many different search engines and sources. I have not yet chased all these links: some are connected with earlier posts. But some look new to me. If any relate to her first - and continuing for some titles -publisher OUP, be cautious of their accuracy. I have been telling them for years that their little biog is wrong: she had a CBE as well as the OBE! (A matter of some significance if you

Hilary's book blog experiment: Frontier Wolf - Rosemary Sutcliff, 1980

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Some comments I found connected with Frontier Wolf.

Rosemary at her desk

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A fine photo. Rosemary, absolutely as I remember her. I am in fact typing this post on the desk she is sitting behind in the photo, which is by Sandra Garside-Neville in 1985, who runs a blog 'appreciating' Rosemary, which is where I found this. (Used with her permission) Rosemary Sutcliff: An Appreciation. Sandra Garside-Neville has written a detailed article on Rosemary .

The Garret Tree: When I waited for Rosemary Sutcliff

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Someone who loves Rosemary's books. Thank you.

Rosemary Sutcliff - Wikipedia

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In the way of the amazing internet source of info, Wilipedia, this entry - which I found today - will develop over time. I have not checked it, but it gives a good deal of factual detail on the books published.

An interview

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By Raymond H. Thompson in 1986.

Rosemary Sutcliff : Teacher Resource File

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A route to some interesting links. Now defunct I think.

Some papers at the University of Southern Mississipi

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Rosemary gave several early manuscripts to the USM de Grummond Collection before deciding ( partly at the urging of my mother) to keep them herself.

Here we go again

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I have been hard at work at the day job at Centrepoint and neglecting this.

Found when googling "Rosemary Sutcliff"+blog!

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"Wednesday, January 21, 2004 Posted 2:01 PM by Simon Montagu From My Commonplace Book Every now and then I think to myself how much I would like to have an old-fashioned commonplace book in which I could copy down passages from books that make a particular impression on me. Occasionally I even start copying a few on scraps of paper, or into files on the computer. Just now while tidying up some

Postcript on Henry Treece's "The Dream-time"

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Rosemary wrote this about an author she admired:Different kinds of stories need to be told in different kinds of words strung together in different ways.Henry Treece understood this better than almost any other writer I know. He had a very special gift for finding exactly the words and word-patterns that each of his books needed, so that instead of simply telling the story, they blend into it

Eagle of the Ninth UK edition cover

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This is the UK cover of Eagle of the Ninth. I am trying to learn how easily to upload images.

Eagle of The Ninth US edition cover

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I am collecting images of all possible editions of Rosemary's books. This is a US one.And to blog it I have discovered the flickr site via the bogger help stuff. Eagle of the Ninth cover Originally uploaded by Anthony Lawton.