Rosemary Sutcliff Summary

Critical Essay by Louise S. Bechtel "Simon" is the longest and best written of Miss Sutcliff's books, appealing more to readers over twelve. It pictures England of the Civil War ... Read more

Critical Essay by Margaret Sherwood Libby "We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind."&#... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement Rosemary Sutcliff is a master of the concrete detail which brings home to us that our ancestors, though men like ourselves, lived in very different con... Read more

Critical Essay by Marcus Crouch Rosemary Sutcliff is an intuitive historian. This is not to say that she is not most careful and exact in research, but that her ability to think herself back into the... Read more

Critical Essay by Joan V Marder Miss Sutcliff's first book, a retelling of the Robin Hood legends, and the three which followed, are written for younger children and, while they give pleasure,... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement [So] great is the output of legends retold nowadays, amounting almost to a minor industry, that one is entitled to ask not only if the story is well to... Read more

Critical Essay by May Hill Arbuthnot and Zena Sutherland Most critics would say that at the present time the greatest writer of historical fiction for children and youth is unquestionably Rosemary Su... Read more

Critical Essay by Margery Fisher Rosemary Sutcliff is never obvious in her interpretation of old causes lost and won…. Blood Feud is in fact what the book is about, the obligation for vengeanc... Read more

Critical Essay by Pauline Clarke Rosemary Sutcliff has given us [in Song for a Dark Queen] a rounded, convincing and (very properly) rather frightening portrait of Boudicca, queen of the Iceni, who l... Read more

Critical Essay by Ann Evans Very occasionally, the opening sentence of a book works a small miracle on the reader. It is as if a shutter sprang open momentarily, to reveal the essence and truth of th... Read more

Critical Essay by Hilary Wright It can hardly have been by chance that in 1960 it was Rosemary Sutcliff who wrote the Bodley Head monograph on the children's books of Rudyard Kipling, nor is i... Read more

Critical Essay by Marcus Crouch [The Road to Camlann] takes up the story [of King Arthur] with Mordred at Camelot, insidiously undermining the fellowship and the spiritual values on which the Round T... Read more

Critical Essay by Neil Philip [Rosemary Sutcliff] cherishes cultural diversity even while she stresses continuity. And while she upholds such unfashionable virtues as duty, courage, integrity, she ha... Read more

Critical Essay by Anne Duchene Autobiography, however much one may try to modify the fact, is essentially the raising of a monument to oneself: an impulse which society may long have acknowledged as ... Read more

Critical Essay by Margaret Sherwood Libby A deeply stirring historical tale, one like "The Shield Ring," is rare. The characters are forceful, sympathetic and interesting. There is a st... Read more

Critical Essay by Eric Hood A bronze-age boy had to kill a wolf single-handed before he could wear the warrior's scarlet, the mantle of manhood. For Drem, the test was doubly difficult because... Read more