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  • That’s not a sand-castle, I’m building a temple to Mithras!
  • … Sophie was a most enchanting old bitch, tiny, pretty, gay, loving and obviously intelligent … (Rosemary Sutcliff Diary, 19th June, 1989)
  • 1959 Carnegie Medal awarded to Rosemary Sutcliff for historical novel The Lantern Bearers
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  • Beautiful edition of Rosemary Sutcliff's Autobiography of her early life and love | Blue Remembered Hills | wp.me/p42Yg-2tA | 56 minutes ago
  • That’s not a sand-castle, I’m building a temple to Mithras! wp.me/p42Yg-2vz | 14 hours ago
  • In #rosemarysutcliffdiary she "a most enchanting old bitch ... tiny, pretty & gay & loving & obviously intelligent"! bit.ly/fNSUuj | 15 hours ago
  • Of whom did RS say "she was a most enchanting old bitch ... tiny, pretty & gay & loving & obviously intelligent"? wp.me/p42Yg-2vs | 15 hours ago
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  • @KernowWordWitch Anna Maria Murphy with @clarebalding rambling & storytelling in Cornwall | RS would nt've rambled bbc.in/AvRfin | 17 hours ago
  • @KernowWordWitch So 2013 again the maverick Kneehigh, 1972 the 'irreverent genius' (@guardian) Rosemary Sutcliff tell Tristan & Iseult story | 17 hours ago
  • @TheSallyGardner Well not only would RS (winner '59; nominee '72) have wished you luck, imagine she'dve congratulated u win Carnegie #ckg13 | 17 hours ago
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  Guardian newspaper editorial 'in praise of' Rosemary Sutcliff, published in 2011,
  Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 children's classic The Eagle of the Ninth (still in print more than 50 years on) is the first of a series of novels in which Sutcliff, who died in 1992, explored the cultural borderlands between the Roman and the British worlds – "a place where two worlds met without mingling" as she describes the British town to which Marcus, the novel's central character, is posted.

  Marcus is a typical Sutcliff hero, a dutiful Roman who is increasingly drawn to the British world of "other scents and sights and sounds; pale and changeful northern skies and the green plover calling". This existential cultural conflict gets even stronger in later books like The Lantern Bearers and Dawn Wind, set after the fall of Rome, and has modern resonance. But Sutcliff was not just a one-trick writer.

  The range of her novels spans from the Bronze Age and Norman England to the Napoleonic wars. Two of her best, The Rider of the White Horse and Simon, are set in the 17th century and are marked by Sutcliff's unusually sympathetic (for English historical novelists of her era) treatment of Cromwell and the parliamentary cause. Sutcliff's finest books find liberal-minded members of elites wrestling with uncomfortable epochal changes. From Marcus Aquila to Simon Carey, one senses, they might even have been Guardian readers.

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