Song for a Dark Queen
by Rosemary Sutcliff
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The life of Boadicea (Boudicca), queen of the Iceni, who led them and other British tribes in a valiant but futile revolt against the Romans in 62 A.D.Tags
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It is wonderfully written, she has an uncanny knack of transporting you to the past with a few sentences, in this case the opening sentence: I am Cadwan of the Harp. Instantly you know that this is a time and place where people do not have surnames and define themselves and their place in life very differently from us. It is a book for young adults, but she does not prettify things: both sides are violent societies. And her vision of Boudicca is very believable as a strong-willed, passionate woman.
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Rosemary Sutcliff was on born December 14, 1920 in East Clandon in Surrey, England. As a child she had Still's Disease, a form of juvenile arthritis. The effect of this led to many stays in hospital for painful remedial operations. She ended her formal education at fourteen, and went to Bideford Art School. She passed the City and Guilds show more examination and worked as a painter of miniatures. She felt cramped by the small canvas of miniature painting and turned to writing. Her first two books, The Chronicles of Robin Hood and The Queen Elizabeth Story, were published in 1950. Her other works included The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, Sword Song, and the autobiography Blue Remembered Hills. She won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for The Lantern Bearers in 1959 and the annual Horn Book Award for Tristan and Iseult in 1971. She won inaugural Phoenix Award in 1985 for The Mark of the Horse Lord and again in 2010 for The Shining Company. In 1975, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to children's literature, and was promoted to be a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1992. She died on July 23, 1992. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Drie zangen voor een koningin
- Original title
- Song for a dark queen
- Original publication date
- 1978
- People/Characters
- Boudica (as Boadicea)
- Important places
- Britannia, Roman Empire (Roman Britain)
- Important events
- Boudicca's Revolt
- First words
- I am Cadwan of the Harp.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Nothing any more.
- Original language*
- Engels
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .S966 .S — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 231
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- 140,282
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, German, Japanese
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 12
- ASINs
- 3
