Arthur Ransome Wiki
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Welcome to Arthur Ransome Wiki
The wiki dedicated to Arthur Ransome, his life, literary works and the Swallows and Amazons series of novels. This wiki, to which anyone can contribute, adopts an in-universe perspective when writing about Arthur Ransome's works of fiction. We aim to complement Wikipedia, with articles focussed on Arthur Ransome and his works rather than general (native) knowledge.
360 articles since July 2008
Featured article: Great Aunt Maria
Early life
It is known that Maria spent some of her youth near the Lake, since she knew Tommy Jolys when he was a child (see Tin Trumpet Incident)...More...
- Previously featured: Secret Archipelago | Dick Callum | Rattletrap | Coniston Water | Christina Hardyment | The Arthur Ransome Society | High Topps | The Lake | Wild Cat Island | Birds | Goblin | Windermere | Kanchenjunga | The Houseboat | Colonel Jolys
This month in Ransome history: November
- 10 November 1952: Arthur Ransome sells Lottie Blossom to Sir George Mallinson for £1,425 (she had cost £1,589) provided her name was changed.
- 13 November 1999: Death of Brigit Sanders at Bideford, Devon. Brigit, born Brigit Altounyan in Aleppo, Syria on 12 June 1926 was a native prototype of Ship's Baby Bridget Walker and for many years she was President and 'Ship's Granny' of The Arthur Ransome Society.
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Helping out
- Not sure where to start?
- Adding content
- The easiest way is to click on any red text you see in Arthur Ransome Wiki, that will take you to a blank page where you can start a new article with that name ("Red text" in this example).
- Arthur Ransome Wiki also has two lists of articles that need help called "Ship's babies" and "Wanted Articles". Shiver my timbers! Don't be shy, get in there.
- Uploading images is another really easy way to help out - see the Special:Upload page!
