Literature
Alfred, 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 cementing a connection to the Island.
The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne grew up at Bonchurch, and said in a letter that he had climbed Culver Cliff at 17. He is buried at Bonchurch.
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 in the Isle of Wight.
The isle has been the setting for several novels, from Julian Barnes's utopian novel England, England, to a series of detective thrillers set on the Island, including The Fallen by Robert Rennick. The island also features heavily in John Wyndham's novel The Day of the Triffids and Simon Clark's sequel to it, The Night of the Triffids.
The Iranian-born poet Mimi Khalvati was educated at Upper Chine School in Shanklin and many of her poems are about the Isle of Wight, especially in the book "The Chine".
The film "That'll Be the Day" starring David Essex was filmed on the Isle of Wight, particularly at Sandown High School, Shanklin beach and Wroxall, Isle of Wight.
Sandown-based author Edward Upward sets part of his book "In the Thirties" in the Isle of Wight.
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