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Granville. The work on Wilde was well received and successful, running to eight editions, but Ransome saw little in return; in 1912 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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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. He was on excellent terms with the
Bolsheviks and frequently brought us information of the greatest value." Nonetheless, in March
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Constance Walker in 1909, with whom he had a daughter, Tabitha Ransome; the couple divorced in 1924. His second marriage, that same year, was to Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina. Although MI5 appeared satisfied with Ransome's loyalty to Britain by 1937,
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grandparents. Later, he denied the connection, claiming he simply gave the
Altounyans' names to his own characters; it appears to have upset him that people did not regard the characters as original creations. Letters also indicate that conflict arose between Ransome and the family.
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Ransome was the son of Cyril
Ransome (1851–1897) and his wife Edith Ransome (née Baker Boulton) (1862–1944). Arthur was the eldest of four children: he had two sisters Cecily and Joyce, and a brother Geoffrey who was killed in the First World War in 1918. Joyce married into the
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of counter-revolutionary forces. After crossing the battle lines on foot, Ransome passed the message, which, to preserve secrecy, had not been written down and depended for its authority only on the high personal regard in which he was held in both countries, to diplomat
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Ransome's writing is noted for his detailed descriptions of activities. Although he used many actual features from the Lake
District landscape, he invented his own geography, mixing descriptions of different places to create his own juxtapositions. His move to
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in Moscow. To deliver the reply, which accepted Piip's conditions for peace, Ransome had to return by the same risky means, but now, he had
Evgenia with him. Estonia withdrew from the conflict, and Ransome and Evgenia set up home together in the capital
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Ransome married Ivy
Constance Walker in 1909 and they had one daughter, Tabitha. It was not a happy marriage; Ransome found his wife's demands to spend less time on writing and more with her and their daughter a great strain; his biographer
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as an infant. His father's premature death in 1897 had a lasting effect on him. His mother did not want him to abandon his studies for writing, but was later supportive of his books. She urged him to publish
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followed early the next year, using the same design of hull, but with aft cockpit and tiller steering. They had two very happy seasons in her, sailing her comfortably on their own, including two voyages to
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Ransome apparently based the Walker children (the "Swallows") in the book partly on the Altounyan family. He had a long-standing friendship with the mother of the Altounyans, and their
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1919, on one of his return visits to the United Kingdom, the authorities interviewed him and threatened him with exposure as an agent. In October 1919, Ransome met
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was so popular that it inspired a number of other authors to write in a similar vein. Most notably, two schoolchildren, Pamela Whitlock and Katharine Hull, wrote
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first edition drawings. Ransome had disliked Spurrier's images and only the maps drawn by Spurrier were retained for the end paper and dust jacket).
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beside the door commemorating his birthplace. Ransome's father was professor of history at
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on 3 June 1967. He and his wife Evgenia are buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church,
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because he had decided not to accept a position as a full-time foreign correspondent with
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the first two books of the series as of 1938, replacing images by
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Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot
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in 1912. However, the latter embroiled him in a libel suit with
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Swallows and Bolsheviks: Arthur Ransome in Revolutionary Russia
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Ted Evans article "On AR and Hillyards" at ted.evans.uwclub.net
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about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the
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Swallows, Amazons and Coots : a reading of Arthur Ransome
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Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco: November 1918 – July 1919
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as a reviewer of new detective novels, using the pen-name of
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Arthur Ransome's Long-lost Study of Robert Louis Stevenson
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in the Lake District, and he was carried up to the top of
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books have less realistic plots. The original concept of
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at Chichester Harbour Conservancy conservancy.co.uk"
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Signalling from Mars, The Letters of Arthur Ransome
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1646:(1953). "Serials: Books for the young reader".
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1969:The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome
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1911:, University of Leeds Library
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2035:The World of Arthur Ransome
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2150:The Arthur Ransome Society
1975:The Life of Arthur Ransome
1921:The Arthur Ransome Society
1909:Arthur Ransome (1884–1967)
1865:Brogan (1984), pp. 433–434
1726:Approaching Arthur Ransome
1070:Portraits and Speculations
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1942:Racundra's Third Cruise
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1281:Racundra's third cruise
1132:Racundra's First Cruise
864:end of the Soviet Union
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573:Racundra's First Cruise
535:The Manchester Guardian
459:After the start of the
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1275:Published posthumously
1025:The Book of Friendship
884:Cheadle Royal Hospital
815:In July, 1951, he saw
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1987:, Jonathan Cape, 1984
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1531:(24 May 2011). "15".
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2013:Blood Red Snow White
1875:Carnegie Winner 1936
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1591:Brogan (1984), p 235
1515:Brogan (1984), p 153
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1359:. All Things Ransome
1167:Swallows and Amazons
1153:Mainly about Fishing
1116:The Crisis in Russia
906:Awards and accolades
749:The Far-Distant Oxus
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126:Swallows and Amazons
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1757:Brogan (1984), 353.
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1100:Six Weeks in Russia
1092:A Letter to America
957:Arthur Ransome Club
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596:Kaines Adlard Coles
475:Russian Revolutions
349:Lord Alfred Douglas
322:Pamela Colman Smith
279:Temple Bar Magazine
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