Posted by Eric Benke on 10/16/99 from ip233.dallas2.tx.pub-ip.psi.net:
In Reply to: Re: Ransome in other author's books posted by andy bolger on October 08, 1999 at 23:04:43:
Peter Hunt, in his book "Arthur Ransome," talks about his influence on children's authors in the last chapter of the book. He also specifically summarizes the book you're thinking of: "Elizabeth Mace's grim post-apocalypic novel, Ransome Revisited, (1975) in which a group of childrend fleeing across a savage England find a copy of Swallowdale. They read it in disbelief that life could been so happy: 'a book ... that tells what it was like, before our time.' But the book is lost, and with it the idyllic life portrayed." [Hunt, p. 148]
Hope that answers your question. I have not seen the book myself.