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Regarding Rosemary Sutcliff, it's very instructive to read the chapter on “Ancient Rome, Gender and British Imperialism” in Ruth Hoberman's crtitical study, "Gendering Classicism: The Ancient World in Twentieth-Century Women's Historical Fiction". Hoberman does stretch the envelope at times to make her point, but it is an interesting and worthwhile read. Although Sutcliff isn't part of this study, the late Victorian fiction which influenced authors like Naomi Mitchison and Bryher was exactly the same as that which influenced Sutcliff: Kipling, Charles Kingsley, Henty and Whyte-Melville - all authors who promoted the idea of Empire and the White Man's Burden, and the concepts of honour, duty and sacrifice. These influences can be seen in Sutcliff's work in general and sometimes in particular. Esca the British gladiator/slave from "Eagle of the Ninth", for example, is clearly an homage to Whyte-Melville's novel "The Gladiators", whose hero is a British gladiator slave called Esca, and Beric of "The Outcast", searching for a place and a father figure in the Roman world, a nod to Henty's "Beric the Briton". Intriguing just how much our mindset owes to those early stories that captured our imaginations!Annishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02367569632016734415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-79911172609659454612012-06-06T14:04:21.701+01:002012-06-06T14:04:21.701+01:00I'd like to think you were right, but JK Rowli...I'd like to think you were right, but JK Rowling was initialled for a reason. The thing is, that if you ask most men, they'd say they were happy reading books by women, but when they do the work with the focus groups and offer them *identical* books with the same cover, the same blurb, but one has an obviously female author and the other is gender neutral, a significant percentage of men actively avoid the former and pick up the latter. It's an unconscious expectation and it takes a degree of self awareness to see it, and then to step beyond it. <br />All that said, nobody that I know of has ever suggested that Rosemary Sutcliff, Mary Renault, Agatha Christie or Hilary Mantel (picking names from the air) was any less able to write a book. Some women manage to break through the glass crate and some don't.... I suspect I might go back to being 'Manda' after this, but you never know...Manda Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-4393368364782878772012-06-06T10:47:09.644+01:002012-06-06T10:47:09.644+01:00Welcome, Manda! Lovely interview, and I am a great...Welcome, Manda! Lovely interview, and I am a great fan of Boudicca.<br /><br />Interesting about the use of initials on your new book... now I know that MC Scott is you, I'm more tempted to try it! (I'm a reader who tends to be put off my men's names or initials on books, because they often - not always - lack the warmth I look for in characters.)<br /><br />I asked a group at a boys school once if they minded I used "katherine" on my Seven Wonders books, and if they would be more likely to read the series if I used my initials K A, but they seemed not to mind. They said the title and the blurb was much more important, so perhaps childen are less influenced by gender of the author than adults? I imagine the use of initials on kids' books is more for the benefit of the adults (parents/teachers/reviewers etc) than the children themselves.Katherine Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-20141098870229677222012-06-05T22:54:06.552+01:002012-06-05T22:54:06.552+01:00Thus writes AL Berridge, author of 'Into the V...Thus writes AL Berridge, author of 'Into the Valley of Death' which is easily the best book I've read this year... of any genre...<br /><br />Good thing we don't hate each other, really. (and no, author love-ins are not common *at all*, honestly)<br /><br />Good night, and thank you,Manda Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-15552205609985752202012-06-05T22:52:49.344+01:002012-06-05T22:52:49.344+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03236283426113684923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-86958697493182255632012-06-05T21:13:52.748+01:002012-06-05T21:13:52.748+01:00And thank you, Manda, for giving such frank answer...And thank you, Manda, for giving such frank answers and not exposing my questions as utterly crass.<br /><br />I'd agree that Sutcliff's sexism is no more than one would expect of anyone of her time - especially with her subject. I'm conscious even of surviving grains of sexism in myself, manifested in an assumption that there were certain things I probably couldn't do. It's only thanks to writers like Manda and readers like Mark that I ever plucked up courage to write my own books.<br /><br />Though it's dwindling after reading 'Eagle of the Twelfth'. I love Sutcliff and always have, but she wrote for a YA audience and there were things she couldn't do and places she couldn't go. Manda does them all, and 'Eagle of the Twelfth' is one of the finest historical novels I have ever read. <br /><br />(Secretly, of course, I hate her...)alberridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15986443240923520466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-74917320716356005692012-06-05T21:03:27.991+01:002012-06-05T21:03:27.991+01:00Another fascinating insight into the mind of the g...Another fascinating insight into the mind of the greatest historical author ever!(in my humble opinion) For anyone who has never read the Boudica series - you must, only then will you realise who you are, where you came from and why our society is as it is.<br />Thanks again Manda for another wonderful series of books.<br />PatrickPatrick Garbuttnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-17204244089280892612012-06-05T19:01:47.924+01:002012-06-05T19:01:47.924+01:00Well, true, Rosemary certainly was a child of her ...Well, true, Rosemary certainly was a child of her times, class and upbringing- and her times were the 20s and 30s growing up, even before the 40s in which she was a miniaturist, and 1950s onwards when she wrote for publication.<br /><br />Mary H: Hey - I have not known who was on that panel. Rosemary was always very proud of The Other Award, in part because she loved deeply The Song for a Dark Queen, the only novel of hers with a female main character (something which perhaps lends validity to MS's point of view?). But in part because she was tickled that she had won a radical award! And anyway, she liked recognition ...Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08677173494958234552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-84211758766863133622012-06-05T18:27:40.501+01:002012-06-05T18:27:40.501+01:00I certainly have no objections... And while I love...I certainly have no objections... And while I love RS's work, and have read all of it cover to cover many times, it's only as an adult, more aware of the world, that I've become aware of what to me is innate sexism in her work. It's so ingrained, and was so much a part of her time, that I think it's inevitable - but it's still there in the attitudes of men to women and of women to men. One could argue that this was also a reflection of Roman society, in which women were second class citizens, but there's enough evidence that (some) men regarded (some) women highly not to need to resort to it. <br /><br />And<br /><br />For the readers of Boudica - The Emperor's Spy follows the stories of some of the surviving characters: it's why I wrote it... Finding the historical basis for Christ was something of a bonus, but not the original point. And, fwiw, I read 'Kim' cover to cover several times before starting - if you're going to write a spy novel, it's pretty much essential reading, as well as being a glorious evocation of time and place. So one day, someone can say with authority that I, too, was influenced by Kipling. <br /><br />Thanks to Mary and to Louise and to History Girls for hosting this...Manda Scotthttp://wordpress.mcscott.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-54127018508145376752012-06-05T14:57:25.066+01:002012-06-05T14:57:25.066+01:00Anthony, I was on the panel of The Other Award the...Anthony, I was on the panel of The Other Award the year that Song for a Dark Queen won! A great book and I was always touched that Rosemary would mention that award alongside her Carnegie Medal.<br /><br />As sort of curator of the History Girls blog, I have no objection to your quoting from the interview, so I hope neither Manda nor Louise does?Mary Hoffmanhttp://www.maryhoffman.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-68864780090058336992012-06-05T14:53:53.959+01:002012-06-05T14:53:53.959+01:00Great interview! I can't wait to read Eagle of...Great interview! I can't wait to read Eagle of the Twelfth!Caroline Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07249424644829463560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-37979576333439575992012-06-05T13:55:30.983+01:002012-06-05T13:55:30.983+01:00KL: I feel sure she herself was influenced by Kipl...KL: <i>I feel sure she herself was influenced by Kipling's historical stories</i><br /><br />Rosemary Sutcliff frequently spoke of the influence of Kipling. In fact, she wrote a monograph about him in 1960.<br /><br />More generally, I enjoyed (as a relative as well as a fan of Rosemary Sutcliff) reading MS's reflections on her and her influence.<br /><br />I do not however concur that RS was I "innately sexist": not a feminist, certainly, as she would have acknowledged. But sexist? I doubt that someone whose writing was "innately sexist" would have won, for her own novel Song for a Dark Queen about Boudica, The Other Award - which focused on writing that satisfied anti-discriminatory criteria in its presentation of gender, race, class and disability alongside literary and aesthetic merit.<br /><br />And she would certainly not have liked being bracketed with Enid Blyton; of this I am sure, having been steered away from Blyton's writing by Rosemary herself when I was young, and having heard her on the subject!<br /><br />I would have enjoyed hearing Rosemary Sutcliff's response to the points MS makes.<br /><br />[I have taken the liberty of quoting the early paras of the interview at the www.rosemarysutcliff.com blog I curate; I hope that is OK with The History Girls?)Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08677173494958234552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-62750245943868879172012-06-05T13:47:33.930+01:002012-06-05T13:47:33.930+01:00Stonking good blog - thank you! Shall certainly l...Stonking good blog - thank you! Shall certainly look up the books, and email this blog to my brother, who is fascinated by Ancient Rome - and, like Mark, certainly not averse to books by women!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-77722856875975916892012-06-05T10:58:53.433+01:002012-06-05T10:58:53.433+01:00Great interview, thank you. I'm interested to ...Great interview, thank you. I'm interested to note that by far the greater number of books I read are by women, so glad to buck that particular trend. I've 'The Emperor's Spy' by my elbow, waiting to be read. Looking forward to it!Mark Burgesshttp://www.markburgess.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-81585463542182005532012-06-05T10:11:40.763+01:002012-06-05T10:11:40.763+01:00Fascinating interview - I've always loved Rose...Fascinating interview - I've always loved Rosemary Sutcliff's books (I feelsure she herself was influenced by Kipling's historical stories in Puck of Pook's Hill & Rewards & Fairies) and now I look forward to discovering more riches here!Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-47629958376658623682012-06-05T03:34:51.405+01:002012-06-05T03:34:51.405+01:00Wonderful, wonderful interview! I know re-enactors...Wonderful, wonderful interview! I know re-enactors and have attended festivals but am amazed that she had the opportunity to actually engage in mock battles. What an incredible experience; no wonder her stories seem so real. Also, I didn't realize M.C. Scott was Manda Scott--I loved the Boudicca series and am excited to read the others now that I know she wrote them.Vicky Alvear Shecterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17570828339389206203noreply@blogger.com