The Blue Treacle
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Information about The Blue Treacle (1993), by Arthur Ransome.
Arthur Ransome’s The Blue Treacle was published posthumously in 1993. This page contains publication, availability, background and contents information.
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First Publication
Published by Amazon Publications in 1993. (With an afterword by Christina Hardyment).
Availability
Out of print.
Background
A prose allegory of mental processes which I meant to be enjoyed by children who should not notice there was an allegory at all. It has been enjoyed by a few elderly persons who have not noticed even that it was a story.
Ransome wrote The Blue Treacle in the winter of 1913 – 14, alongside Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp. It is an allegorical tale written by Ransome for his daughter Tabitha, who appears as the heroine.
Ransome’s friend, Molly Hamilton, tried unsuccessfully to find a publisher for The Blue Treacle in 1926. The Amazon Publications edition contains an afterword by Christina Hardyment, examining The Blue Treacle’s place in Ransome’s development as a writer.
