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Arthur Ransome
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English author and journalist (1884–1967)
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Vinony files it under 1884 births, 1967 deaths and 20th-century English journalists.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 11 February 1834
- Died
- 25 July 1922
- Works
- 55
Top works
- The Thurston speech upon the progress of medicine
- Losses and gains in the death-toll of England and Wales during the last thirty years
- Campaign Against Consumption
- The Thruston speech upon the progress of medicine, delivered in the chapel of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, at the Wendy Commemoration, on May 11, 1869
- On foul air and lung disease
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Film & TV
Writing
Known for
- Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien — Self (archive footage)2022
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1884
- Active to
- 1967
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 82
- Total plays
- 1,288
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Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist, best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. These tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; other common subjects include fishing and camping. The books remain so popular that they provide a basis of a tourist industry around Windermere <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Arthur+Rans
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2012 · cited 15,165x
- Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in the micron size range
· 1968 · cited 13,425x
- The Molecular Signatures Database Hallmark Gene Set Collection
· 2015 · cited 13,148x
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Quotes
- “BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.”
- “They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.”
- “When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.”
- “"Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze,"”
- “Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall.”
- “A pigeon a day keeps the natives away”
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Key facts
- Born
- Arthur Michell Ransome , ( 1884-01-18 ) 18 January 1884, Leeds , England
- Died
- 3 June 1967 (1967-06-03) (aged 83), Cheadle Royal Hospital , Cheshire , England
- Resting place
- St Paul's Church, Rusland, Cumbria , England
- Occupation
- Author journalist
- Genre
- Children's literature
- Notable works
- Swallows and Amazons series of books
- Notable awards
- Carnegie Medal , 1936
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Arthur Ransome in uniform.jpg
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- Commons category
- Arthur Ransome
- date of birth
- 1884-01-18
- date of death
- 1967-06-03
- Commons gallery
- Arthur Ransome
- name in native language
- Arthur Ransome
- start of work period
- 1904-01-01
- end of work period
- 1967-01-01
Sources (9)
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Works in European collections
7 objects attributed to Arthur Ransome, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) 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 Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake.
He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917. His connection with the leaders of the Revolution led to him providing information to the Secret Intelligence Service, while he was also suspected by MI5 of being a Soviet spy.
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