![]() Medicine and disabled characters play a prominent role in her fiction. ![]() At two years old, she developed juvenile arthritis which partially crippled her she spent much of her childhood in and out of hospital and used a wheelchair in later life. Sutcliff was the daughter of a Royal Navy commander, and much of her work focuses on military officers and the life of the service. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to children's literature. ![]() She is best-known for her novels set in Roman Britain, particularly The Eagle of the Ninth. Rosemary Sutcliff CBE (14 December 1920 – 23 July 1992) was a British writer of Young Adult Historical Fiction, who published some fifty books between 19. ![]()
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