This HTML5 document contains 4 embedded RDF statements represented using HTML+Microdata notation.

The embedded RDF content will be recognized by any processor of HTML5 Microdata.

Subject Item

n2:

rdfs:label

The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome

rdfs:comment

Rupert Hart-Davis said it required editing, to remove references to episodes in Russia in which Arthur was not involved, eg discussion of Russian political parties or theories of the future; and to have people introduced only once, when they first appeared. This is because, like the books of the Swallows and Amazons series, he used to write a detailed synopsis with chapter titles first, then write "whichever chapter took his fancy or seemed easiest, leaving the most difficult to the last". He wrote at the end of the book that after the publication and reprinting of Peter Duck in 1932:

dcterms:subject

n4:

n6:abstract

Rupert Hart-Davis said it required editing, to remove references to episodes in Russia in which Arthur was not involved, eg discussion of Russian political parties or theories of the future; and to have people introduced only once, when they first appeared. This is because, like the books of the Swallows and Amazons series, he used to write a detailed synopsis with chapter titles first, then write "whichever chapter took his fancy or seemed easiest, leaving the most difficult to the last". AR covers in the last two chapters his writing of Swallows and Amazons, with a “family of imaginary children”, and had sketched the story of how the family of four (five including the baby) met two girls on a lake like Coniston. He wrote at the end of the book that after the publication and reprinting of Peter Duck in 1932: “The turn of the tide had come just in time to save us and to justify Evgenia’s courage in risking financial disaster. Presently the sales of the first two books began to catch up with those of Peter Duck, and I knew I could afford to write another.” Arthur died in 1967, and Evenia died in 1975, nearly eight years later. According to Brogan, her chief preoccupation was to act as guardian of Arthur’s reputation, writings and estate; and she took especial care over the preparation of the Autobiography for publication after her own death (Life, page 434). Wardale says that after Arthur’s death Genia took to remonstrating with the Altounyans over their “monstrously false claims on their part that they had been models for the Swallows” and "withheld his Autobiography from publication until after her death" (NBUS page 80).