I posted on X today:
HappyNew Year all ye who actively follow here (X) & love #ReadingRosemarySutcliff.
But I will no longer post on this (X) platform with owner Elon Musk—a dangerous self-seeking right-wing ideologue with no regard to facts—actively slurring this country’s democracy & leaders.
🎄 Dec 21 | #RosemarySutcliffAdventCalendar2024
“Healing the body is easier than healing the heart.” 🧙♂️❤️
A boy with disabilities finds his place in the world through healing arts in medieval England.
#TheWitchsBrat #ReadingRosemarySutcliff
🎄 Dec 7 | #RosemarySutcliffAdventCalendar2024
“Sometimes survival itself is an act of courage.” 🐕🍂
In the ruins of Roman Britain, in Dawn Wind, a boy and his dog face a changing world. A haunting tale of endurance and resilience.
#DawnWind #ReadingRosemarySutcliff
🎄 Dec 4 | #RosemarySutcliffAdventCalendar2024
“There is no death, only a change of worlds.” 🐴⚔️
Rosemary Sutcliff’s best-seller re-imagines Arthur as a Romano-British war leader. A sweeping tale of the fight to preserve civilisation.
#SwordAtSunset #ReadingRosemarySutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff’s 7/55 stories of #kidlit & #histfic was Outcast (1955)—In Roman Britain, Beric, the red-haired only survivor of a Roman shipwreck is raised by Britons, to face the dangers of two worlds
#Outcast
#historicalfiction #ReadingRosemarySutcliff
#RosemarySutcliffsBooksInYearOrder
#TheArmourersHouse is out
#SunHorseMoonHorse is on the way.
Thank you @manderleypress.bsky.social and Isabel Greenberg
So much enthusiasm for encouraging #ReadingRosemarySutcliff
We Lived in Drumfyvie (1975) (with Margaret Lyford-Pike): #WeLivedInDrumfyvie
#ReadingRosemarySutcliff
The Wanderings of Odysseus (1995) #TheWanderingsOfOdysseus
The Witch’s Brat (1970) #TheWitchsBrat
Three Legions (1980) #ThreeLegions
Tristan and Iseult (1971) #TristanAndIseult
Warrior Scarlet (1957) #WarriorScarlet
#ReadingRosemarySutcliff
The Shield Ring (1956) #TheShieldRing
The Shining Company (1990) #TheShiningCompany
The Silver Branch (1957) #TheSilverBranch
The Sword and the Circle (1979) #TheSwordAndTheCircle
The Truce of the Games (1971) #TheTruceOfTheGame #ReadingRosemarySutcliff
The Changeling (1974) #TheChangeling
The Chief’s Daughter (1967) #TheChiefsDaughter
The Chronicles of Robin Hood (1950) #TheChroniclesOfRobinHood
The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) #TheEagleOfTheNinth
The Flowers of Adonis (1969) #TheFlowersOfAdonis
#ReadingRosemarySutcliff
Sword at Sunset (1963) #SwordAtSunset
Sword Song (1997) #SwordSong
The Armourer’s House (1951) #TheArmourersHouse
The Best of Rosemary Sutcliff (1987) #TheBestOfRosemarySutcliff
The Capricorn Bracelet (1973) #TheCapricornBracelet #ReadingRosemarySutcliff
Chess Dream in a Garden (1993) #ChessDreamInAGarden
Dawn Wind (1961) #DawnWind
Eagle's Egg (1981) #EaglesEgg
Eagle's Honour (1995) #EaglesHonour
Flame-Coloured Taffeta (1986) #FlameColouredTaffeta
Frontier Wolf (1980) #FrontierWolf
#ReadingRosemarySutcliff
Blood and Sand (1987) #BloodAndSand
Blood Feud (1976) #BloodFeud
Blue Remembered Hills (1983) #BlueRememberedHills
Bonnie Dundee (1983) #BonnieDundee
Bridge Builders (1960) #BridgeBuilders
Brother Dusty-Feet (1952) #BrotherDustyFeet
#ReadingRosemarySutcliff
The eminent writer of historical fiction and children’s literature Rosemary Sutcliff re-imagined history of many periods, including Roman Britain, and re-told legends of Ireland,Wales and England.
For #ReadingRosemarySutcliff over 55 separate titles …of which some covers👇…
See RosemarySutcliff.net
Does Rosemary Sutcliff not feature in your list because you do not rate her as highly as the others, or because you have yet to read her best work? #ReadingRosemarySutcliff would be on my list, and not just because she was a close and much beloved relative! rosemarysutcliff.net
Rosemary Sutcliff’s autobiography of her early life is named from an A E Housman poem: ‘Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection”. She starts with her birth in Surrey … Text of first para: “When anybody asks me where I was born, or when I am called on to provide that information in filling in a form, I admit with a distinct sense of apology that I was born in Surrey. Why the sense of apology I do not know. Surrey is quite as rich in history and, at least in parts, quite as beautiful in its own way as any other county in England. I can only think that it is because my father, like all the best sailors except Nelson, was Devon born and bred, and my mother was born in Dorset; and because of that, I grew up with the feeling that the West Country is the only right and proper place in which to have one's beginnings.”
Cover of Rosemary Sutcliff’s autobiographical ‘Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection’.She sat in her wheelchair in her beloved garden.
Rosemary Sutcliff’s autobiography of her early life is named from an A E Housman poem: ‘Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection”. She starts with her birth in Surrey …
#ReadingRosemarySutcliff
#RosemarySutcliffFirstParagraphs
#BlueRememberedHills
Award-winning author Rosemary Sutcliff made history accessible & exciting for readers of all ages, telling engaging stories. She sparks interest in history & historical times that might otherwise be dry or distant
#ReadingRosemarySutcliff #childrensliterature #History #kidlit #historicalfiction
“The Old Shepherd sitting with his face turned seaward and his broad-bladed spear across his knees, seemed as much a part of the downs as did the wind-stunted whitethorn trees along the bank behind him …. “
#RosemarySutcliffFirstLines #WarriorScarlet
#ReadingRosemarySutcliff
#TheHighDeedsOfFinnMacCool by Rosemary Sutcliff
#ReadingRosemarySutcliff #SutcliffRetellings 📚💙
As I set out here on Bluesky, a gentle reminder to readers old and new that the eminent writer of historical fiction & children’s literature is not Rosemary Sutcliff, not Sutcliffe! There is no ‘E’ in her family name
#SutcliffNotSutcliffe #ReadingRosemarySutcliff
