“surely born in Ransome’s own formative love for Coniston”
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Arthur Ransome
Arthur Michell Ransome was an English author, intelligence agent, and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. The entire series remains in print, and Swallows and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and…
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culture · English author and journalist (1884–1967) · journalist · writer · children's writer · illustrator · collector of fairy tales · translator · literary critic · also Arthur Ransome, Arthur Michell Ransome, Ransome
Born 18 January 1884 · Died 3 June 1967 · Q515845
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He lived in our hotel and we saw him almost daily. Ransome was a Don Quixote with a walrus moustache, a sentimentalist who could always be relied upon to champion the underdog, and a visionary whose imagination had been fired by the revolution.
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2026· 2 entries
“He lived in our hotel and we saw him almost daily. Ransome was a Don Quixote with a walrus moustache, a sentimentalist who could always be relied upon to champion the underdog, and a visionary whose imagination had been fired by the revolution.”
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2020· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Arthur Ransome
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2017· 1 entry
ITV: 50th anniversary of Arthur Ransome's death
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2011· 3 entries
Scoop: Arthur Ransome, storyteller, sailor, suspected spy
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The Scotsman: Book Review: Arthur Ransome’s Long-Lost Study of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Kirsty Nichol Findlay
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As Arthur Ransome's Long-lost Study of Robert Louis Stevenson
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2010· 1 entry
With the object of establishing a permanent Arthur Ransome Home for the study and appreciation Arthur Ransome's life and works
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2009· 3 entries
The Daily Telegraph: Arthur Ransome's family deny double agent claims
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The Guardian: Arthur Ransome: journalist, author, spy
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This is examined in the 2009 book The Last Englishman: the Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers.
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1967· 2 entries
Died 1967-06-03.
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And the work was edited by Hugh Brogan and sections published as unfinished in 1988, with some other short works
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1954· 1 entry
At the age of 70, was to be Ransome's last long passage
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1943· 1 entry
Although his second wife Evgenia hated it, and was often discouraging about his books while he was writing them
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1936· 1 entry
Won Carnegie Medal for Pigeon Post (1936).
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1929· 1 entry
– the first of the series that made his reputation as one of the best English writers of children's books
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1925· 1 entry
(in Coles' ownership she became Annette II), Ransome went on (in addition to the occasional charter, loan or trial sail) to own five further cruising yachts
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1915· 1 entry
Ransome published The Elixir of Life (published by Methuen, London), which was to be his only full-length novel apart from the Swallows and Amazons series
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1914· 1 entry
Became a foreign correspondent and covered the war on the Eastern Front for a radical newspaper, The Daily News
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1913· 1 entry
Ransome left his first wife and daughter and went to Russia to study its folklore
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1912· 1 entry
Granville was charged with embezzlement and fled the country, leaving Ransome to struggle even to register himself as a creditor of Granville's ruined company
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1909· 1 entry
With whom he had a daughter, Tabitha Ransome; the couple divorced in 1924
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1903· 1 entry
About a visiting Japanese poet, Yone Noguchi, led to an ongoing friendship with Japanese painter (and Chelsea neighbour) Yoshio Markino, who in turn introduced him to the Bohemian circle of Pamela Colman Smith, an artist
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1901· 1 entry
Studied at Rugby School (1897–1901).
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1884· 1 entry
Born 1884-01-18.
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