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Obituary: Rosemary Sutcliff

Constance Kingsford
Wednesday 19 August 1992 18:02 EDT
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YOUR obituary of Rosemary Sutcliff was excellent, writes Constance Kingsford. I was disappointed, however, to see that while many of her books were listed her splendid story of the Civil War The Rider of the White Horse (1959) was omitted. The 1967 edition has an introduction by Elizabeth Goudge in which she speaks of it as one of her favourite books - a sentiment with which I most whole-heartedly concur.

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