Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Arthur Ransome NPG D32983

© Candia Lutyens Peterson / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert Lutyens

Ransome began writing children's stories at the turn of the century. Escaping from an unhappy first marriage, he worked as a foreign correspondent in Russia during the First World War and the Russian Revolution. There he met Trotsky's secretary, Evgenia Shelepin whom he eventually married. In 1929 he gave up journalism to write Swallows and Amazons, the first in a series of twelve books featuring the Walker children.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.