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hedgebirdThis 1250-word essay by Jeffrey Aldridge was written for the collection The Best of Bookmark: Children's Writers Talk About Their Work, material from the Edinburgh-based magazine about children's literature he edited with Pauline Brown and Robbie Robertson, which also included Rosemary Sutcliff's piece "Novelist's Hat and Minstrel's Bonnet". His essay gives a glimpse of Sutcliff from the outside, and also records remarks by the eminent historical novelist Dorothy Dunnett.
(This Desert Island Discs interview gives a few further details on how Sutcliff learned to write about things Scottish).
From the book's introduction, some context for their acquaintance: "Sadly, of course, Rosemary Sutcliff is no longer with us. She and I corresponded regularly, following her first contribution to Bookmark 4 – she was a subscriber, too, saying that she always looked forward to the next issue. I always intended to have an extended interview with her but the opportunity never arose. My personal memoir which concludes this volume stands as an inadequate substitute."
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(This Desert Island Discs interview gives a few further details on how Sutcliff learned to write about things Scottish).
From the book's introduction, some context for their acquaintance: "Sadly, of course, Rosemary Sutcliff is no longer with us. She and I corresponded regularly, following her first contribution to Bookmark 4 – she was a subscriber, too, saying that she always looked forward to the next issue. I always intended to have an extended interview with her but the opportunity never arose. My personal memoir which concludes this volume stands as an inadequate substitute."
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