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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITAIN
 
  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
Rosemary Sutcliff

(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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