![]() ![]() The actual book that changed his life, The life of William Morris by J W Mackail, is still in the University Library. ![]() He was so inspired by what he read, he decided there and then to become a writer and, despite his father's worries, left for London in 1901. Searching the shelves for a book on magnetism, he was attracted instead by a biography of the writer and artist William Morris. ![]() An academic failure at boarding school, he agreed to study science at the college to please his father Cyril Ransome, who was its Professor of History and English.Ī chance event in the college library decided Ransome's whole future. Yorkshire College student, 1901 Honorary DLitt, 1952Īrthur Ransome, born in Headingley, was an unwilling student at the Yorkshire College, which became the University of Leeds in 1904. ![]()
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