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The Lantern Bearers : dating evidence
In the Terribly Handy Sutcliff Chronology on the Wiki , the date of The Lantern Bearers is given as 410-430AD, and (presumably because it comes straight after) Sword at Sunset is dated as 430AD on. I think this is wrong, but the same date is also replicated in quite a lot of different places on the web, so rather than just change it in the Wiki, ( Read more... ) -
Sutcliff's paintings
I know that Rosemary Sutcliff was a professional artist before she took up writing, and I think that background definitely reflects in her writing, all those fabulous descriptions. But I've never come across any of her paintings, and all her books that I own are illustrated by other artists.
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Madhouse Mansion
I forgot this yesterday, but, well - Rosemary Sutcliff co-wrote a 1974 Gothic horror film called Ghost Story, alias Madhouse Mansion.
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BBC Eagle of the Ninth
Continuing on from a previous post, I though people might be interested in seeing some screen captures from the BBC 70s version of Eagle of the Ninth, including most of the main characters (complete with very 70s hair and facial hair!).
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Brother Dusty Feet e-book release
While I was browsing Amazon, I was surprised to discover that Brother Dusty Feet is being released as an e-book, on December 31. It's not in print in paper in the US, so Americans may want to get it while they can.
You can preorder at Amazon.com for $9.05 and at Amazon.co.uk for £6.26. I haven't found it on any other companies' e-book sites yet (I ( Read more... ) -
Blue Remembered Hills reissue; BBC Eagle bootleg DVD
And another thing!
Rosemarysutcliff.com reports that Blue Remembered Hills, the 1983 autobiography of her life pre-writing career, is being reissued by Slightly Foxed.
John from Australia has a tape of the 1970s The Eagle of the Ninth miniseries converted to DVD and is apparently willing to send copies to interested commenters on rosemarysutcliff.com ( Read more... ) -
Fiat Wiki
Guys, I started a wiki. In the vein of fifty billion other wikis to be found on Wikia, this is intended not for literary discussion but as a reference guide to Sutcliffverse, for the benefit, I hope, of fanwork. Need to know everything that's ever happened and will happen at Trimontium, or who else has been named Cordaella, or where you can cross ( Read more... ) -
A list of appearances by the legions
ETA January 2014: This info has been reorganised over on Sutcliff Wiki: http://sutcliff.wikia.com/wiki/Legions_and_Auxilia. Any future updates will probably occur over there ( Read more... ) -
How to write like Sutcliff?
Over in my journal a while back, there was an amusing thread about Sutcliff's stylistic quirks. Here's what we came up with ( Read more... ) -
Dawn Wind Reissue
Guys, Sutcliff's literary executor Anthony Lawton at rosemarysutcliff.com reports that Dawn Wind, the sixth book in the Dolphin Ring sequence and the only one not recently in print, will be reissued by Oxford University Press. (OUP currently also publishes The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers; a compilation of the ( Read more... )