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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.
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Featured article: Mr Tedder
Police Constable Tedder, usually referred to as Mr Tedder is the police constable at Horning, where he lives next to the staithe (a Norfolk term for a quay).
Mt Tedder is a keen gardener, so after the altercation with the Hullabaloos at the Horning Staithe Mrs Barrable changes the subject by discussing gardening with him (CC8)..... ...more...
- Previously featured: Port and Starboard | Rio | Maria Turner | 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: February
- 1 February 1932: Nancy sends a picture inviting members of the North Polar Expedition to sleep on board the Fram. This and subsequent events described in Winter Holiday.
- on a Saturday morning in late February 1933: Pike caught by the Death and Glories is mounted and unveiled at The Roaring Donkey (described in epilogue to The Big Six: 'What Happened to the Fish'.
Native events in February
- February 1895: The Great Frost during which the whole of Windermere was frozen, and the headmaster of Arthur Ransome's school at Windermere let them make the most of it. Those weeks of clear ice with that background of snow-covered, sunlit, blue-shadowed hills were, forty years after, to give me a book called Winter Holiday for which I have a sort of tenderness AAR page 19 and LAR pages 46-47.
- February 1919: Frederick Field, The first of those lords so hated by Roger (SW1), was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral.
- 26 February 1932: birth of Jingū Teruo sensei （神宮輝夫), a scholar of Arthur Ransome and of children's literature, who lives in Japan.
- 17 February 1935: Arthur Ransome helped in devising the plot of [Pigeon Post]] by Oscar Gnosspelius: Oscar full of help about the mining... (AR's diary, quoted in NBUS pages 88,90,91)
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