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Rosemary Sutcliff’s Dolphin Ring and fictional Roman Aquila family
In a comment on a recent post yesterday Robert Vermaat points me to a blog post from a few years ago which explores how Rosemary Sutcliff passed a dolphin ring down many generations of the Aquila...
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Rereading Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth
Around the time of the release of the film The Eagle, Charlotte Higgins wrote in the Guardian: “Not just a rollicking adventure, Rosemary Sutcliff‘s The Eagle of the Ninth … is a touching true story...
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Rosemary Sutcliff selling well | Bestselling books of 2011 | The Guardian
The Guardian newspaper has presented the aggregate information on physical book sales in Britain in 2011. Three already elderly Stieg Larsson thrillers topped last year’s all-year bestsellers table,...
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Rosemary Sutcliff’s children’s and historical fiction classic The Eagle of...
Amazon are selling Rosemary Sutcliff‘s classic historical novel, The Eagle of the Ninth, for the Kindle in the UK for 99p! In the US it is $1.54! This classic of children’s literature is still relevant...
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Lesser pleasures of parenthood
Fugitive Ink blog by Barendina Smedley tackles issues of politics, art and literature “from an unapologetically idiosyncratic, vaguely High Tory perspective.” Amongst the lesser pleasures of...
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Rosemary Sutcliff: “innately sexist”?
Manda Scott is the author of the Boudica: Dreaming novels and the Rome series. The third book in that series, The Eagle of the Twelfth, was published recently. The History Girls (she is one such) are...
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1959 Carnegie Medal awarded to Rosemary Sutcliff for historical novel The...
The Carnegie Medal for 2013 is awarded today. The Medal is awarded every year in the UK to the writer of an outstanding book for children. (2013 shortlist here). The eminent Rosemary Sutcliff...
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Sword at Sunset Arthurian novel by Rosemary Sutcliff an ‘odd one out’ | The...
Historian, writer and journalist Christina Hardyment reflected on Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff in response to the anniversary edition of Sutcliff’s Arthurian adult novel – an ‘odd one out’....
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Rosemary Sutcliff has written some of the finest contemporary recreations of...
Raymond H. Thompson (Author) interviewed Rosemary Sutcliff for the periodical Avalon to Camelot in 1986. In the introduction he wrote: Though perhaps best known for historical novels set in Roman...
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Japanese Film-maker Hayao Miyazaki’s Top 50 Children’s Books include Rosemary...
At the Skunk & Burning Tires blog, author Ju-osh M. is – by his own admission – “far too old to be seeking the attention and approval of strangers”. Yet – to adapt a phrase of his – there he was,...
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Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth was on BBC TV in 1977 | Getting...
Rosemary Sutcliff‘s historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth, which by 2011 had sold more than a million copies since its appearance in 1954 (according to publisher OUP), was made into a BBC TV series...
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The history of the IXth or VIIIIth (Ninth) Legion and background to Rosemary...
Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth is rooted in the history of a real Roman legion. A couple of years back I noted some references about the history from a website that has now disappeared –...
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Falco creator Lindsey Davis included Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the...
In 2009, Lindsey Davis—writer of classical thrillers, creator of private investigator and poet Falco—listed in The Guardian newspaper her top ten books from her “shelves and shelves” of Roman material....
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L’Aigle de la Neuvième Légion, a TV en France aujourd’hui!
L’Aigle de la Neuvième Légion is the French film version of The Eagle film derived from Rosemary Sutcliff’s best-selling historical fiction book L’Aigle de la Neuvième Légion (The Eagle of the Ninth)....
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Can you recommend historical fiction for children and teenagers which isn’t...
Julia Eccleshare, expert on children’s and young adult’s fiction and literature (and Book Doctor at The Guardian), recently wrote a piece for theguardian.com with recommendations for historical fiction...
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Source of the name Esca in The Eagle of the Ninth
This is news to me, although it is probably originally in her memoir Blue Remembered Hills: the name Esca for the slave in Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth comes from Victorian novelist...
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Rosemary Sutcliff speaks to BBC Radio Times about her historical novel The...
When the BBC adapted and broadcast Rosemary Sutcliff‘s historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth in 1977, the BBC Radio Times wrote about her approach to children, writing, the Romans and her hero...
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Rosemary Sutcliff was ‘Of the Minstrel Kind’, and a writer with a distinctive...
Rosemary Sutcliff was the subject of a fascinating, insightful article (‘Of The Minstrel Kind’) in the children’s literature magazine Books for Keeps. First published only in print form, it has for...
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Teachers’ Guide to the historical novels of Rosemary Sutcliff
Publishers Farrar, Straus and Giroux produced a teachers’ and readers’ guide about the books of Rosemary Sutcliff (that they pubished!). It is undated, covering ” the award-winning trilogy set in Roman...
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Roman Marching Song, by Rosemary Sutcliff | The Girl I Kissed At Clusium
Anne wrote long ago at the ‘Write!” tab above about the song The Girl I Kissed At Clusium which features in Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth. (The tab is for the many...
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