Julia Margaret Cameron was a prominent early photographer, who has a museum dedicated to her at Dimbola Lodge in Freshwater. The "Isle of Wight School" of Romantic painters specialised in views of the South West Coast prominent were George Morland and J.
Prominent locations featured in the film include Ryde's Union Street, the Military Road at Compton Bay, Ryde Pier and Red Funnel's Red Osprey car ferry. The 2005 film Fragile was filmed almost entirely on the Isle of Wight, with the exception of a few exterior shots. The 1973 film That'll Be the Day, starring David Essex, Rosemary Leach and Ringo Starr, was filmed on the island, at Sandown High School, Shanklin beach and Wroxall. Sandown-based author Edward Upward sets part of his book "In the Thirties" on the Isle of Wight. The Iranian-born poet Mimi Khalvati was educated at Upper Chine School in Shanklin many of her poems are about the island, especially in the book "The Chine". It also features in John Wyndham's novel The Day of the Triffids and Simon Clark's sequel The Night of the Triffids. The isle has been the setting for several novels, including Julian Barnes's utopian novel England, England, and detective thrillers such as The Fallen by Robert Rennick. The author Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett) was born in Newport, and a number of her novels, including the best-known, The Silence of Dean Maitland, are set on the island. The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne grew up at Bonchurch, and said in a letter that he had climbed Culver Cliff at 17. The first creative flowering occurred during the reign of Queen Victoria, under whose patronage the island became a fashionable destination for the gentry.Īlfred, Lord Tennyson was made Baron Tennyson, of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater on the Isle of Wight by Queen Victoria in 1884. Local people often seek to defend their real or perceived culture, and local politics is often dictated by a desire to preserve the traditions and habits of the Island. The Island has inspired many creative works. A high proportion of the population are now 'overners' rather than locally born, and so with a few notable exceptions it has more often formed the backdrop for cultural events of wider rather than island-specific significance.
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