Articles exploring Arthur Ransome's books, primarily the Swallows and Amazons series | ||
About That Towed Ship . . . | Donald Tunnicliff Rice | The barque being towed out to sea in WDMTGTS, and Alan Villier's Grain Race Trilogy. |
Arthur Ransome as a Children's Writer |
Nicholas Tucker | Talk given at Second TARS Literary Weekend, Pulborough, October 1993. |
Arthur Ransome's Railways | David Carter | A booklet originally published by TARS in 2000, with annotations
and additional links by Rod Boden. Post-online-publication notes and observations at Notes and Observations |
The Beckfoot Flag | Jill Goulder | How character influences plot in Arthur Ransome |
The Cache In the Cairn | Owen Roberts | On the tin and contents found in the cache on Kanchenjunga in Swallowdate |
The Chemistry of Pigeon Post | Adam Quinan | Original article |
Crab Island and 'Gibber' | Mike Field | Prototypes of Peter Duck's Crab Island and Roger's Monkey 'Gibber' |
Dreaming of the deep and crisp and even |
Martin Kettle | The Guardian, 1st January 1994. |
The Lost Club | Roger Dobson | Paper on Ransome's Bohemia in London. |
It's a Wise Child | Isobel Laidler (with Jill Goulder) |
The characters of the Swallows and the Amazons and how they were affected by the absence of their fathers and by Ransome's relationship with his daughter |
Motive and Motif in Swallows and Amazons and Pigeon Post |
Kirsty Cochrane | Talk given at Second TARS Literary Weekend, Pulborough, October 1993. |
Namesake Animals in the Swallows & Amazons Books |
Molly McGinnis | Articles about the "Totem" (Namesake) title animals and animals that drive the stories in the Swallows & Amazons books. |
The Old Eel that Come Up through Breydon Water | J.B. Smith | Arthur Ransome's Work as a Key to Folklife and Folk Speech |
On the Origin of the Northern River Pirates | Peter Roche | Original article on the origin of the Northern River Pirates, including the Flag's Story and the World's Whopper |
Ransome's Missing Natives | Peter Hyland | An exploration of the many "missing natives" in the Swallows & Amazon books and a proposed explanation |
Reasons for Ransome | Susan Price | Extract from Books for Life (catalogue of Susan Price Collection, National Library of New Zealand). |
A Reassessment of the of Arthur Ransome |
Mike Dennis | A re-assessment and discussion of Ransome's Children's Books and Ransome's position in the literary world. |
A Syrian Boathouse | Jill Goulder | The search for the Altounyan's boathouse and lake in Aleppo |
Treasure for Ransome | Christina Hardyment | Arthur Ransome's lost book on Robert Louis Stevenson. Article from the Independent 27 March 1994 |