![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hedgebird"Novelist's Hat and Minstrel's Bonnet" is an essay of about 1350 words in which Rosemary Sutcliff reflects on her evolving style of writing, and the relationship between her historical fiction and her retellings of myth and legend.
Sutcliff wrote the essay for Bookmark 11, the September 1983 issue of an Edinburgh-based periodical about children's literature she apparently subscribed to and had written for at least once already (Bookmark 4). It was reprinted in the 1994 collection The Best of Bookmark: Children's Writers Talk About Their Work. Also included is "Rosemary Sutcliff – A Personal Memoir" by the editor Jeffrey Aldridge, which I'll post in a few days.
(NB I've ventured to make a couple of edits to the Best of Bookmark text: "has always been my best beloved" instead of "had always been", "of its own accord" instead of "on its own accord". As always, please feel free to point out typos or other issues.)
( Read more... )
Sutcliff wrote the essay for Bookmark 11, the September 1983 issue of an Edinburgh-based periodical about children's literature she apparently subscribed to and had written for at least once already (Bookmark 4). It was reprinted in the 1994 collection The Best of Bookmark: Children's Writers Talk About Their Work. Also included is "Rosemary Sutcliff – A Personal Memoir" by the editor Jeffrey Aldridge, which I'll post in a few days.
(NB I've ventured to make a couple of edits to the Best of Bookmark text: "has always been my best beloved" instead of "had always been", "of its own accord" instead of "on its own accord". As always, please feel free to point out typos or other issues.)
( Read more... )
