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Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; fishing and camping are other common subjects. The books remain popular and "Swallows and Amazons" is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake. He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917. ==Personal life== Ransome was the son of Cyril Ransome (1851-1897) and his wife Edith. Arthur was born in Leeds;〔(''The Last Englishman: the Double Life of Arthur Ransome'' by Roland Chambers: review )〕 the house at 6 Ash Grove, in the Hyde Park area, has a blue plaque over the door commemorating Ransome. Ransome's father was professor of history at Yorkshire College, Leeds (now the University of Leeds). The family regularly holidayed at Nibthwaite in the Lake District, and he was carried up to the top of Coniston Old Man as an infant. His father's premature death in 1897 had a lasting effect on him. Ransome was educated first in Windermere and then at Rugby School (where he lived in Lewis Carroll's study room) but did not entirely enjoy the experience, because of his poor eyesight, lack of athletic skill, and limited academic achievement. He attended Yorkshire College, his father's college, studying chemistry. After a year, he abandoned the college and went to London to become a writer. He took low-paying jobs as an office assistant in a publishing company and as editor of a failing magazine, ''Temple Bar Magazine'', while writing and becoming a member of the literary scene of London. Ransome's sister, (Marjorie Edith) Joyce (1892-1970) married Hugh Ralph Lupton (b. 1893), the son of Leeds Lord Mayor Hugh Lupton. Joyce and Hugh Ralph had four children, giving one of their sons the name Arthur Ralph Ransome Lupton (1924-2009), in honour of the boy's famous literary uncle. Hugh's and Joyce's children shared with their extended family a love of nature and wetlands. When at home in Leeds, the children also shared a governess with their second cousin, Peter Francis Middleton (1920-2010), grandfather of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Ransome married twice, first to Ivy Constance Walker in 1909 (they divorced in 1924) with whom he had a daughter Tabitha Ransome. His second marriage, in 1924, was to Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina who is buried in the same grave as Ransome. Ransome died in 1967 in a Greater Manchester hospital. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, Cumbria, in the southern Lake District. The ''Autobiography of Arthur Ransome'', edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, was published posthumously in 1976. It covers his life only to the completion of ''Peter Duck'' in 1931. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Ransome」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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