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The region also figures in works by L. P. Hartley, Arthur Ransome and Dorothy L. Sayers, among many others.
Arthur Ransome uses the device to allow his young characters in the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, plotted in the recognisable, everyday world, to take part in fantastic adventures of piracy in distant lands: two books from the twelve: Peter Duck and Missee Lee ( and some would include Great Northern?
* The children's novels Coot Club and The Big Six, both by Arthur Ransome, are set on the Broads.
The 20th century children's author Arthur Ransome visited Wroxham in the 1930s.
As the junior partner at Cape, he had to handle their difficult authors including Robert Graves, Wyndham Lewis and Arthur Ransome, the last being seen as difficult because of his wife Genia, with her " distrustfulness, venom and guile ".
After the war, Hart-Davis was unable to obtain satisfactory terms from Jonathan Cape to return to the company, and in 1946 he struck out on his own, founding Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd, in partnership with David Garnett and Teddy Young and with financial backing from Eric Linklater, Arthur Ransome, H. E. Bates, Geoffrey Keynes, and Celia and Peter Fleming.
He edited volumes of the letters of the playwright Oscar Wilde, the writer and caricaturist Max Beerbohm, and the writer George Moore, as well as the diaries of the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the autobiography of Arthur Ransome.
Lucas ( RHD Ltd ) 1950 ; All in Due Time by Humphry House ( RHD Ltd ) 1955 ; George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 ( RHD Ltd ) 1957 ; The Letters of Oscar Wilde ( RHD Ltd ) 1962 ; Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner ( RHD Ltd ) 1964 ; More Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1969 ; Last Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1970 ; A Peep into the Past by Max Beerbohm ( Heinemann ) 1972 ; A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm ( Macmillan ) 1972 ; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ( Cape ) 1976 ; Electric Delights by William Plomer ( Cape ) 1978 ; Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Oxford ) 1979 ; Two Men of Letters ( Michael Joseph ) 1979 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries 1920-1922 3 vols.
The Stour estuary is the focus of a children's novel by Arthur Ransome, Secret Water ( 1939 ).
Interest originally centred on the hamlet of Pin Mill ( featured in two children's novels by Arthur Ransome: We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea and Secret Water ), which is home to the Pin Mill Sailing Club and its Hard.
* Great Northern ?, a novel by Arthur Ransome in the Swallows and Amazons series, named after the diver
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by Arthur Ransome ( in which it is referred to throughout as Great Northern Diver, with the obsolete scientific name Colymbus immer ).
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post
* There is a Life and Times by John Arthur Ransome Marriott ( 1907 ): see also S. R. Gardiner's History of England ; History of the Civil War ; the same author's article in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Here he met Arthur Ransome, who was visiting Egypt as a journalist for the Manchester Guardian.
In a curious book, Bohemia in London by Arthur Ransome which is a partly fictional account of his early years in London, published in 1907 when he was 23, there are some fascinating, rather over-romanticised accounts of bohemian goings-on in the quarter.
" Arthur Ransome uses two references from it in his children's books, the Swallows and Amazons series.

Arthur and celebrated
Ealing Studios ( financially backed by J. Arthur Rank ) embarked on their series of celebrated comedies, including Whisky Galore ( 1948 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) and The Man in the White Suit ( 1951 ).
Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about his celebrated sleuth Sherlock Holmes which features a fingerprint: The Norwood Builder is a 1903 Sherlock Holmes short story set in 1894 and involves the discovery of a bloody fingerprint which helps Holmes to expose the real criminal and free his client.
After his termination, Frum clarified that his article had been " welcomed and celebrated " by AEI President Arthur Brooks, and that he'd had been asked to leave because " these are hard times.
However, celebrated writers such as G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Clayton Rawson and Sax Rohmer have had their works adapted to comic book form.
Arthur co-starred in three celebrated 1930s Capra films: her role opposite Gary Cooper in 1936 in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town made her a star, while her fame was cemented with You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in 1939, both with James Stewart.
On 22nd June 2000, Arthur and Marjorie celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary.
Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).
The most celebrated fictional depiction of a Lord Chancellor occurs in Iolanthe, the comic opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.
Early fare included popular tunes, dance numbers and patriotic marches, mostly recorded by small groups of unnamed musicians hired in New York City credited as the " Emerson Orchestra " or sometimes grandly, " The Emerson Symphony Orchestra ", but some classical records were made by violinist David Hochstein ( his only recordings ), pianist Arthur Friedheim, and the orchestra of New York's Rialto Theatre under its celebrated director Hugo Riesenfeld.
In the 1990s, Baxter was widely celebrated, alongside Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, as one of the progenitors of what had become known as the " exotica " movement.
He studied philosophy under the celebrated Professor Arthur Hennequin.
Arthur Russell having died in 1845, the care of his large family devolved upon their talented mother and their paternal uncle, the celebrated Dr. Russell of Maynooth.
The day has been celebrated since 1788, when Governor Arthur Phillip declared a holiday to mark the birthday of the King of Great Britain.
Myrna Loy and Arthur Hornblow, Jr. celebrated their divorce there.
Meanwhile, Potter continued to distribute her privately printed edition to family and friends, with the celebrated creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, acquiring a copy for his children.
Among his most celebrated work for 2000 AD is the miniseries Necronauts ( 2000 – 01 ), in which Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Fort, and ( inevitably ) H. P. Lovecraft team up to defeat an incomprehensibly alien menace that seeks to destroy the human race.
" This celebrated Canadian army nurse and public health authority was born in Port Arthur, Ontario.
It celebrated the gift to the Morgan by Laurent de Brunhoff and his brothers, Mathieu and Thierry, of the manuscript of Jean de Brunhoff's first book, Histoire de Babar ( The Story of Babar, 1931 ) and by Laurent of the manuscript of his first book, Babar et ce coquin d ' Arthur ( Babar's Cousin: That Rascal Arthur, 1946 ).
In 1959, Walter Scott Houston perpetrated a celebrated April Fool's hoax in the April edition of the Great Plains Observer, claiming that " Dr. Arthur Hayall of the University of the Sierras reports that the moons of Mars are actually artificial satellites ".
In a celebrated cartoon by Richard Doyle ( the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ) of Madame Tussaud's museum, which named the room of criminal items " the chamber of horrors ", in the forefront were a set of statues of various murderers or attempted murderers, including James Greenacre, Daniel Good, James Blomfield Rush, and Edward Oxford.
Other celebrated productions included Much Ado About Nothing, The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the immensely popular Faust by William Gorman Wills ( 1885, which even drew applications for reserved seats from foreigners ), Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan ), Henry VII ( 1892 ), Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan ( 1895 ), Cymbeline ( 1896 ) and Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ).

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