Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

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Introduction: A Context for Arthur Ransome’s
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Critical Study

1   Parcel Post

2   Ransome and Literary London, 1902–13

3   First Marriage and Ransome’s Papers

4   The Stevenson Manuscript: Parcel and Exercise Book

5   Ransome and Stevenson

6   Writing Stevenson

7   Stevenson Abandoned

8   Ransome and the Stream of Stevenson Criticism

9   The Text and the Edition

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Arthur Ransome, Robert Louis Stevenson: A Critical Study

Introductory

Part I   Biographical Summary

Part II Writings

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Appendices

A TEXTUAL MATERIAL

A.1 Ransome’s ’Stevenson exercise-book’ transcribed

A.2 Additional material from the main manuscript

A.3 Published article, ‘As Happy As Kings’ by Arthur Ransome, The New Witness, 5 February 1913

B BIOGRAPHICAL AND CONTEXTUAL MATERIAL

B.1 Ransome’s first story, ‘The Desert Island’, 1892

B.2 ‘The Plate-Glass Window’, unsigned review article, The Eye-Witness, 3 August 1911

B.3 ‘R. L. S.’ by ‘K.’, The Eye-Witness, 28 September 1911

B.4 Family trees for Stevenson and Ransome

Index