Wow, this is really interesting. :) Yeah, I love it so, so much. There's no way she would have been able to get it published nowadays...

I did sort of assume that some of her more archaic-sounding "British" strucutres were Welsh-derived; nice to know :)

Heh. One thing about reading Sutcliff is that one has to sort of let one's wish for female characters take a back seat... that's probably my main complaint. But it hasn't stopped me reading her :)