5/15/2023 0 Comments Arthur ransome autobiography![]() ![]() ![]() Ransome won the suit, but suppressed the contentious text from subsequent editions of the Wilde biography. Ransome's wife's behaviour in attending the trial, and apparently enjoying the notoriety, added to the stress on their marriage. The alleged libel dealt with Wilde and Douglas' homosexual affair and as a result became very scandalous. Among his other books, one on Oscar Wilde embroiled him in a libel suit with Lord Alfred Douglas. ![]() It was not a happy marriage and they divorced in 1924. Ransome married Ivy Constance Walker in 1909 and they had one daughter, Tabitha. A curiosity in 1903 about a visiting Japanese poet, Yone Noguchi, led to an ongoing friendship with Japanese painter (and Chelsea neighbour) Yoshio Markino, who in turn introduced him to the bohemian circle of Pamela Colman Smith. In his first important book, Bohemia in London (1907), Ransome introduced the history of London's bohemian literary and artistic communities and some of its current representatives. ![]()
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