Tristan marries another Iseult, remains loving and then breaks with his real love, but they are reunited in death. The story is filled with adventure and adversity - a firedrake killed, intrigue at court, a death sentence and escape, the separation of the lovers. What follows is a triangle similar to Arthur Guinevere-Lancelot, dramatic in its own way but not as distinctive, as the original. In all other versions Tristan and Iseult are lovers doomed after drinking a magic potion intended for lseult and her husband Marc Miss Sutcliff considers this "artificial" and prefers a love springing from natural sources. Here, however, although her technique is sound, the power of her story is diminished by a strange (and self-confessed) alteration of the traditional texts. She died on July 23, 1992.In presenting stories from the past, Rosemary Sutcliff has an unusual capacity for retaining the flavor of the original while discarding antiquated syntax and inconsequential detail. 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 won inaugural Phoenix Award in 1985 for The Mark of the Horse Lord and again in 2010 for The Shining Company. 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. Her other works included The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, Sword Song, and the autobiography Blue Remembered Hills. Her first two books, The Chronicles of Robin Hood and The Queen Elizabeth Story, were published in 1950. She felt cramped by the small canvas of miniature painting and turned to writing. She passed the City and Guilds examination and worked as a painter of miniatures. She ended her formal education at fourteen, and went to Bideford Art School. The effect of this led to many stays in hospital for painful remedial operations. As a child she had Still's Disease, a form of juvenile arthritis. Rosemary Sutcliff was on born Decemin East Clandon in Surrey, England.
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