Anthony Lawton | ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF

About: Anthony Lawton

Website: http://www.rosemarysutcliff.com
Details: Chair, Sussex Dolphin, family company which looks after the work of emminent children’s & historical fiction author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). Formerly CEO, chair, & trustee of various charity, cultural & educational enterprises in UK.

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27/03/20182018 The 1997 Encyclopedia of Fantasy view on eminent award-winnng British writer Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92) | “An imagination … powerful enough to create startling pictures of what could have been.
26/03/20182018 The distinctive features of historical novelist and children’s Rosemary Sutcliff’s ministrel’s magic
25/03/20182018 British writer Rosemary Sutcliff re-makes and re-tells legends of Robin Hood, King Arthur, Beowulf, Tristan and Iseult, Finn Mac Cool and Cuchulain, the Iliad, the Odyssey
24/03/20182018 Kurt Vonnegut’s Eight Tips for Writing Short Stories
23/03/20182018 The Dolphin Ring appears in eight award-winning books by Rosemary Sutcliff, world-renowned writer of historical fiction for children and adults
22/03/20182018 Writer of historical fiction Rosemary Sutcliff had a “mystical communion with the past” and an “uncanny sense of place”
21/03/20182018 Is the Carnegie Medal for outstanding writer for children and young people in English moving away from children’s books?

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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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About: Anthony Lawton

Posts by Anthony Lawton:

27/03/20182018 The 1997 Encyclopedia of Fantasy view on eminent award-winnng British writer Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92) | “An imagination … powerful enough to create startling pictures of what could have been.

26/03/20182018 The distinctive features of historical novelist and children’s Rosemary Sutcliff’s ministrel’s magic

25/03/20182018 British writer Rosemary Sutcliff re-makes and re-tells legends of Robin Hood, King Arthur, Beowulf, Tristan and Iseult, Finn Mac Cool and Cuchulain, the Iliad, the Odyssey

24/03/20182018 Kurt Vonnegut’s Eight Tips for Writing Short Stories

23/03/20182018 The Dolphin Ring appears in eight award-winning books by Rosemary Sutcliff, world-renowned writer of historical fiction for children and adults

22/03/20182018 Writer of historical fiction Rosemary Sutcliff had a “mystical communion with the past” and an “uncanny sense of place”

21/03/20182018 Is the Carnegie Medal for outstanding writer for children and young people in English moving away from children’s books?

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