The best-known of her Roman novels is The Eagle of the Ninth, and the related trilogy of which the second, The Lantern Bearers, was awarded the 1959 Carnegie Medal. Rosemary Sutcliff's novels won much critical acclaim in her lifetime and since. Rosemary received an OBE in the 1975 Birthday Honours List, and a CBE in 1990. The UK Guardian newspaper called her a “writer of genius” in their obituary. Initially an art-school trained painter of miniatures, Rosemary Sutcliff’s first children's book was published in 1950, and from then on she devoted her time and talents to the writing of children's books and history novels, which have placed her name high in the field of contemporary children's literature and historical fiction.
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