In this essay, 'History is People' acclaimed historical novelist Rosemary discussed her responsibilities as a children's author and her belief that human nature remains essentially consistent and relatable throughout history, using a range of texts from the Homeric Age to the English Civil War to illustrate her points.
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\nThe essay was originally distributed at a conference for the
Children's Literature in Education journal in Exeter in 1971, and was later reprinted in the 1973 anthology
Children and Literature: Views and Reviews, edited by Virginia Haviland, which is where this reading is taken from. The text can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/childrenliteratu00havi\n
\nVoice Cast:
\nAlex Davis as Rosemary Sutcliff
\nNikos Karydis as Homer
\nFlavio Bacci as the Roman soldier
\nSarah Bremner as Margret Paston
\nVicky Saward Read as Catherine Parr
\nAnd Jay Ingate as Edward Spencer
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\nMusic Credits:
\nMeditation Impromptu One to Three, Touching Memories, Relaxing Piano Music and Crossing the Divide, all by Kevin Macleod and available from
incompetech.com\n
\nIf you’d like to find out more about Rosemary Sutcliff, you can visit the official website at
RosemarySutcliff.net\n
\nYou can also read David's analyses of various Sutcliff novels and short stories on website for the Our Mythical Childhood Survey, an international project which looks at the influence of Classical culture on modern children’s media:
http://www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/myth-survey/search\n