Three outstanding books in one edition by a world-renowned author
Rosemary Sutcliff was born in Surrey, the daughter of a naval
officer. At the age of two she contracted the progressively wasting
Still's disease and spent most of her life in a wheelchair. Apart
from reading, she made little progress at school and left at
fourteen to attend art school, specializing in miniature painting.
In the 1940s she exhibited her first miniature in the Royal Academy
and was elected a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters
just
after the war. In 1950 her first children's book, The Queen's
Story, was published and from then on she devoted her time to
writing the children's historical novels which have made her such
an esteemed
and highly respected name in the field of children's literature.
She received an OBE in the 1975 Birthday Honour's List and a CBE in
1992. Rosemary Sutcliff died at the age of 72 in 1992.
`[Praise for The Eagle of the Ninth]:
Decades later, I can still hear echoes of The Eagle of the Ninth in
my head: the chink of mail, the tired beat of the legionaries'
feet.'
The Independent
`'these tales of Roman Britain have yet to be surpassed for their
non-patronising prose and adult dangers. Sutcliff makes Classics
and archaeology uniquely thrilling for children'
'
Amanda Craig, The Times
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