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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Rosemary Sutcliff
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(1920–92)
Author of numerous historical novels, the majority of them for teenage readers. She is best known for her series about the *Roman occupation of Britain, beginning with The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), but her range extended to either side of that period; the hero of Warrior Scarlet (1958) is a boy with a withered arm in southern England in the *Bronze Age, attempting the very difficult task of killing a wolf so as to achieve manhood; and The Shield Ring (1956) tells of *Viking settlements in the Lake District resisting the encroachment of the *Normans. A childhood illness confined Rosemary Sutcliff to a wheelchair, and her books (like many adolescents) have a strong sense of identity with the lonely and the excluded.
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