One day I will get a full set of Arthur Ransome hardbacks with these covers. |
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Current editions of the Swallows and Amazons series have illustrations which were drawn by Ransome himself. |
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For the second edition, Clifford Webb was commissioned to produce the illustrations, which met with grudging approval from Ransome. |
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Webb also illustrated Swallowdale, but Ransome decided that he would personally illustrate the third book, Peter Duck. |
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As this book was supposedly based on information supplied by the children themselves, Ransome drew the pictures as though done by the characters. |
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These illustrations were so popular that Ransome illustrated the remainder of his books himself. |
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In 1789 Robert Ransome, an iron founder in Ipswich started casting ploughshares in a disused malting at St Margaret's Ditches. |
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His second marriage, in 1924, was to Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina who is buried in the same grave as Ransome. |
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Ransome married Ivy Constance Walker in 1909 and they had one daughter, Tabitha. |
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His wife Ivy attended the 1913 trial, sitting in the public gallery as Ransome would not let her sit beside him. |
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Secker agreed to release the rights, and Ransome handed Poe and Wilde over to Granville. |
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In 1913 Ransome left his wife and daughter and went to Russia to study Russian folklore. |
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After the Allied intervention Ransome remained in the Baltic states and built a cruising yacht, Racundra. |
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Myles North, an admirer of Ransome, provided much of the basic plot of the book. |
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Ransome concludes that Wilde succeeds precisely because the literary criticism is unveiled with such a deft touch. |
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Little acquiesced, and Ransome disguised him in a beard, and a loose set of clothes, and a billicock hat. |
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Most of the unfinished Coots in the North would also have been set on the lake had Ransome completed it before his death. |
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To deliver the reply, which accepted Piip's conditions for peace, Ransome had to return by the same risky means, but this time he had Evgenia with him. |
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After a summer of teaching Collingwood's grandchildren to sail in Swallow II in 1928, Ransome wrote the first book in his Swallows and Amazons series of books. |
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Collingwood was particularly interested in Norse lore and the Norsemen, and he wrote a novel, Thorstein of the Mere which was a major influence on Arthur Ransome. |
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The first one to be founded was the Arthur Ransome Club in Japan. |
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The lake and the surrounding fells are based on an amalgam of Windermere and Coniston Water, places where Ransome spent much of his childhood and later life. |
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Many places in the books can be identified with real locations in the area, though Ransome has modified the real location in producing his fictional setting. |
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That all such Jewes which have not already embraced the Russian Religion shall be dismissed without ransome. |
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