Ransome in other author's books


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Posted by Adam Quinan on 10/01/99 from ip213-196.cc.interlog.com:

I am aware of two authors of fiction, both TARS members as far as I know, who have inserted references to Arthur Ransome or his books into their own work. Does anyone else know of any other fictional appearances of Ransome?

The first is Kit Pearson, who is a Canadian author of children's fiction, my daughter has been reading her trilogy, The sky is falling, Looking at the moon and The Lights go on again which describe the experience of British children evacuated to Canada in 1940. She has her characters mention that they have read Arthur Ransome which would have been far more likely then than now.

The other author is Richard Woodman who has written a wonderful series of books about a sea captain in the Napoleonic Wars, Nathaniel Drinkwater. However, he has also written The Darkening Sea which tells the story of a seafaring family from the First World War to the 1980s. At one point when the characters are discussing the British intervention in Russia in 1919, after the Revolution, Woodman has one of them mention "that awful man Ransome in the Manchester Guardian", the journalist Arthr Ransome was certainly writing about Russia and opposing the intervention, but I can't recall when he started writing for the Guardian.


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