Arthur Ransome

Arthur Michell Ransome (born January 18, 1884 in Leeds , † June 3, 1967 at Cheadle ) was a British writer. He is the creator of the children's book series Swallows and Amazons .

Life

The son of a history professor first studied science at the Yorkshire College of Science , which he broke off after two semesters in favor of a literary career. In 1902 he came to London, where he initially worked as an errand boy for a publishing house. As a freelance journalist and author, he later wrote about Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde, among others, and was editor of short stories.

Ransome's grave

In 1913 he came to Russia as a correspondent for the Daily News . He was in contact with the Secret Intelligence Service . In particular, he reported on the October Revolution . In 1916 he had success with Old Peter's Russian Tales , a collection of Russian fairy tales and legends. With his ketch Racundra he sailed to the Baltic States, which he talks about in the book Racundra's First Cruise published in 1923 . From 1919 he worked for the Manchester Guardian .

Freshly divorced from his first marriage, he married Evgenia Shelepin in 1924, who had worked as a secretary for Leon Trotsky . He had to return to England for health reasons. He lived in the rural Lake District , where his series of children's books, The Battle for the Island ( Swallows and Amazons ), started in 1930 , is set. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1936 for Pigeon Post .

Works

Illustration to Old Peter's Russian Tales

Non-fiction

Bohemia in London (essays, 1907)
Six weeks in Soviet Russia ( Six Weeks in Russia in 1919 , 1919)
The crisis in Russia ( The Crisis in Russia , 1921)
Racundra's First Cruise (1923)

Short stories

The Hoofmarks of the Faun (1911)

Children's book

Old Peter's Russian Tales (1916)
The Battle for the Island ( Swallows and Amazons , 1930)
In Schwalbental (Swallowdale, 1931)
Peter Duck (1932)
Winter Holiday (1933) ( Christmas holidays , Leonhard Friedrich, Bad Pyrmont 1948)
Coot Club (1934)
Pigeon Post (1936)
The Involuntary Seafaring ( We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea , 1937)
Secret Water (1939)
The Big Six (1940)
Missee Lee (1941) ( Pirate Queen Li , Union Stuttgart 1979)

The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)

Great Northern? (1947)

literature

Hugh Brogan: The Life of Arthur Ransome. Pimlico, London 1992, ISBN 0-7126-5249-3 .
Peter Hunt: Arthur Ransome. Twayne, Boston 1991, ISBN 0-8057-7003-8 .
Roland Chambers: The last Englishman: the double life of Arthur Ransome. Faber and Faber, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-571-22261-2 .

Web links

Commons : Arthur Ransome - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Literature by and about Arthur Ransome in the catalog of the German National Library
Arthur Ransome and the Bolshevik Revolution

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Wayne G. Hammond: Arthur Michell Ransome. In: Encyclopædia Britannica Online . Retrieved July 16, 2009.
↑ Ransome, Arthur. In: Ed. ICB Dear, Peter Kemp (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea . Oxford University Press, 2007.
↑ Ransome, Arthur Michell. In: Margaret Drabble (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to English Literature . Oxford University Press, 2000.

personal data
SURNAME	Ransome, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ransome, Arthur Michell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British writer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 18, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leeds
DATE OF DEATH	3rd June 1967
Place of death	Cheadle

[hammond-1] Wayne G. Hammond: Arthur Michell Ransome. In: Encyclopædia Britannica Online . Retrieved July 16, 2009.

[2] Ransome, Arthur. In: Ed. ICB Dear, Peter Kemp (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea . Oxford University Press, 2007.

[3] Ransome, Arthur Michell. In: Margaret Drabble (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to English Literature . Oxford University Press, 2000.