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Rosemary Sutcliff believed in re-incarnation
Rosemary Sutcliff was a children’s writer and historical novelist who believed in re-incarnation. She told me , as she did other people, that she once found herself telling someone who suggested that...
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Rosemary Sutcliff on children, adults and dogs
A quotation from Rosemary Sutcliff about children versus dogs and adults.
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E B White’s dog didn’t answer the telephone
Like Rosemary Sutcliff, E B White loved his dogs! At the intriguing Letters of Note website, is a wonderful letter of his, in response to their complaint that he was harbouring an unlicensed dog. It...
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Dogs in the historical novels of Rosemary Sutcliff
Thinking of both historical fiction and dogs put Katherine Langrish, author of fantasy novels for young adults, in mind of Rosemary Sutcliff. Katherine believes that dogs in books are a “Good Thing”....
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My head so muzzy I simply don’t know what to do with it (Diary, 7/4/89)
April 7th, Thursday. Ray doing the lawn with combined weedkiller and fertiliser, so the dogs won’t be able to go out on it for two days, which will be hell for all of us. Geraldine looked in for tea....
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Barny (the dog) not well (Diary, 17/4/88)
April 17th, Sunday. Ray has put in an enormous day’s work in the garden aided and abetted by Sheila. Barny not terribly well. © Anthony Lawton 2012 Barny was one of Rosemary Sutcliff’s two chihuahuas....
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… Ray gave Barny and Basty a bath … (Diary, 26/5/88)
May 26th Thursday. Hazel looked in this morning. Ray gave Barny and Basty a bath. Barny and Basty (Sebastien) were Rosemary’s two chihuahuas at that time.Filed under: Rosemary Sutcliff's Diary Tagged:...
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… Barny’s 13th birthday … (Rosemary Sutcliff Diary, 5/8/88)
June 5th Sunday. Barny’s 13th birthday. Sheila made him a really beautiful chocolate coloured cake with 13 candles, and Geraldine came to help eat it. Rosemary Sutcliff loved her dogs dearly. Barny...
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… having been keyed up to expect the worst, am now feeling completely zonked...
June 12th Sunday. Completely uneventful, except that Barny had a bad night & was so groggy today that (Ray mothering him to take him down to the vet) I rang the vet & asked him to come out. Mr...
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A Little Dog Like You by Rosemary Sutcliff |“After Pippin, a beloved...
Today’s diary entry about her dog Barny put me in mind of the little book Rosemary Sutcliff published a years earlier, in 1987, A Little Dog Like You. Kirkus reviews wrote at the time of publication in...
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… Barny rather sleepy but quite at ease, and thoroughly enjoying his food...
June 13th Monday. Ray took Barny down for his second injection. Mr Skelton very pleased with him. He seems rather sleepy but quite at ease, and thoroughly enjoying his food again. Agnes, new...
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… Barny quiet and sleepy but no more so than he always is in hot weather...
June 14th Tuesday. The most glorious sunny day for the start of Ascot week. M came for the afternoon, and I took her into the sitting room for tea and to watch the second part of it on TV. (Having...
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… Sophie was a most enchanting old bitch, tiny, pretty, gay, loving and...
June 19th Monday. Over to Burgess Hill , Joan and I in absolutely blistering heat and returned with the most enchanting (? & naughty) old bitch, tiny, pretty & gay & loving, and obviously...
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Chosen with a poet’s care | The names of Rosemary Sutcliff’s characters |...
Around 1962 Margaret Meek wrote a monograph about Rosemary Sutcliff, only a decade or so into a writing career that was to last for another 30 years. She spoke of Rosemary choosing names “with a...
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Google ‘discovers’ Rosemary Sutcliff was on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs!
For reasons I cannot divine, my Google alert for new items on <Rosmeary Sutcliff> pointed today to a 2011posting at this blog about her appearance on BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs! At that...
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“Dog, aiee, dog” |16 Dogs in the fiction and children’s books of historical...
Rosemary Sutcliff said to the Radio Times in 1977: “I like a child or a dog or an adult according to their merits. I am prone to like more dogs on a percentage basis”! Dogs also feature in many of her...
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