Male : Novelist and children's writer. Married Ivy Walker in 1909 but it didn't last. During 1915 he was in Russia where he fell in love with Trotsky's secretary, Evgenia Shelepin. They married 1924

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Leeds, Yorkshire

Date of Birth : 1884 Date of Death : 1967 Age : 83

Other Work : War Correspondent for the Daily News & Special Correspondent on the Manchester Guardian

Education : Rugby Sch & Leeds Univ (failed to complete)

1904-1910
The ABC of Physical Culture (1904 Henry J Drane)
The Souls of the Streets (1904 Brown Langham)
The Stone Lady : Ten Little Papers and Two Mad Stories (1905 Brown Langham)
Pond and Stream (1906 Anthony Treherne)
The Child's Book of the Seasons (1906 Treherne) - Frances Craine
The Things in our Garden (1906 Treherne)
Highways and Byways in Fairyland (1906 Rivers : Pinafore Library)
Bohemia in London (1907 Chapman & Hall) - Fred Taylor
A History of Storytelling : Studies in the Development of Narrative (1909 Jack) - Jessie Gavin
(Ed) The Book of Friendship (nd. 1909 Jack)
Edgar Allan Poe : A Critical Study (1910 Secker)
The Imp and the Elf and the Ogre (1910 Nisbet)

1911-1920
(Ed) The Book of Love Essays, Poems, Maxims & Prose Passages (1911 Jack)
The Hoofmarks of the Faun (1911 Secker) - stories & essay
Oscar Wilde : A Critical Study (1912 Secker)
Portraits and Speculations (1913 Macmillan) - collected essays
The Elixir of Life (1915 Methuen)
Old Peter's Russian Tales (1916 Jack) - Dmitri Mitrokhin
The Truth about Russia (1918 New Republic) - Pamphlet
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1919 Nisbet) + 250 signed. Thomas Blakely Mackenzie
Offered in 1999 for £350
Six Weeks in Russia in 1919 (1919 Allen & Unwin OR Socialist Labour Press, Glasgow) - Pamphlet

1921-1950
The Crisis in Russia (1921 A & U) - Pamphlet
The Soldier and Death : A Russian Folk Tale told in English (1921 J G Wilson)
(1962 Ward) - Charles W Stewart
Racundra's First Cruise (1923 A & U)
The Chinese Puzzle (1927 A & U)
Rod and Line (1929 Cape)

After 1951
Mainly About Fishing (1959 A & C Black)
The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome (1976 Cape)
The War of the Birds and Beasts (1984 Cape)

SWALLOWS & AMAZONS
(All Cape)
Swallows and Amazons (1930) - Helene Carter
[A copy sold at auction in 2004 for £5875]
[Filmed in 1974]
Swallows and Amazons (1931) - Clifford Webb
[A copy sold at auction in 2004 for £1058]
Swallows and Amazons (1938) - with Ransome's own drawings
Swallowdale (1931) - Clifford Webb
All below with Ransome's drawings
Peter Duck (1932)
Winter holiday (1933)
Coot Club (1934) - Ransome & Helene Carter
Pigeon Post (1936)
Swallowdale (1936)
We Didn't Mean to go to Sea (1937)
Secret Water (1939)
The Big Six (1940)
Missee Lee (1941)
The Picts and the Martyrs, or Not Welcome at All (1943)
Great Northern ? (1947)
Coots in the North and Other Stories (1988)

READING
Hugh Shelley : Arthur Ransome (1960 Bodley Head)
R B Shelley : Arthur Ransome (1968 Bodley Head)
Hugh Brogan : The Life of Arthur Ransome (1984 Cape)
Christina Hardyment : Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk (1984 Cape)
Roger Wardale : Arthur Ransome's Lakeland (1986 Dalesman Pb)
Roger Wardale : Arthur Ransome's East Anglia (1988 Poppyland Pb)
Roger Wardale : Nancy Blackett - Under Sail with Arthur Ransome (1991 Cape)
Peter Hunt : Approaching Arthur Ransome (1992 Cape)
(Ed) David Stewart : Illustrating Arthur Ransome (1994 Amazon)
Jeremy Swift : Arthur Ransome on Fishing (1994 Cape £14.99)
C E Alexander : Ransome at Home - Snug Berths and Temporary Moorings (1996 Amazon)
(Ed) Hugh Brogan : Signalling from Mars - The Letters of Arthur Ransome (1997 Cape £17.99)
Roger Wardale : Ransome the Artist (1998 Amazon)
Roger Wardale : Arthur Ransome and the World of the Swallows and Amazons
(2000 Great Northern Books)
Wayne G Hammond : Arthur Ransome - A Bibliography (2000 St Paul's Bibliographies £49)