![]() ![]() ![]() the coffee-stall man who sells the Ds two hot pies,.ten little girls in green coats and two young women skating.(Bill Bowness.went too far on ice & fell in),.( Fanny) the girl (domestic) who helps Mrs Jackson,.the Dixons' farmhand, Silas and dog Roy,.minor characters (those in parentheses are "offstage"):. ![]() Swallows: John, Susan, Titty, Roger Walker.Another major influence is Fridtjof Nansen's books about his Arctic expedition from 1893–1896 in the Fram and on sledges. In 1929, there was another severe winter with Windermere freezing over for several weeks, this was just before Ransome wrote Swallows and Amazons. and herself had skated from one end to the other ( WH16). in '95 with coaches with four horses and horns blowing (which crossed) the lake from side to side ( WH15), and that There was three or four of them (ice yachts) rushing about on the lake in ’95, and racing for a silver cup. Mrs Dixon recalls when she was a young girl. For his inspiration, Ransome draws on his schoolday memories of the Great Frost of 1895 when Windermere froze completely ( Life, page 19). ![]()
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