Margaret Meek
maintained that this book shows already the compelling narrative skill of the undoubted storyteller.
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Literary responses
Rosemary Sutcliff
Margaret Meek
judged this to be, partly on account of the setting, the most Kiplingesque
of Sutcliff's books, as well as the best she had written by the early 1960s.
Meek, Margaret. Rosemary Sutcliff. The Bodley Head, 1962.
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The TLS review...
Reception
Rosemary Sutcliff
Sutcliffe's high reputation brought her the honour of a monograph in the Bodley Head
series on children's writers (1962, authored by Margaret Meek
). In 1983, she appeared on the popular radio programme Desert Island Discs.
The Norsemen settled in which is now Cumberland slaughter the party of troops coming with hostile violence to survey the land and enumerate the population and resources. Sutcliff vividly renders a landscape which she knew...
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Meek, Margaret. Rosemary Sutcliff. The Bodley Head, 1962.