Arthur Michell Ransome (1884-1967), Journalist and author
Sitter in 15 portraits
Ransome began writing children's stories at the turn of the century. Escaping from an unhappy first marriage, he worked as a foreign correspondent in Russia during the First World War and the Russian Revolution. There he met Trotsky's secretary, Evgenia Shelepin whom he eventually married. In 1929 he gave up journalism to write Swallows and Amazons, the first in a series of twelve books featuring the Walker children.
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1932
NPG x12267
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1932
NPG x12270
by John Gay
vintage glossy bromide print, 1949
NPG x126503
by John Gay
vintage glossy bromide print, 1949
NPG x126504
by Robert Lutyens
ferro-gelatine print, published 1962 (1961)
NPG D32983
Windermere Steamboats and Museum, Cumbria
Category
Literature, Journalism and Publishing
Groups
Children's writers and illustrators
Journalists
Novelists and authors
Places
Cumbria
Russia
Yorkshire
