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It has been said that the 19th Century was the golden age of literature many well-known writers of that time either lived or visited the Isle of Wight.
It was here that Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote some of his greatest poems. 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' was composed on the down that now bears both his name and monument; and 'Crossing the Bar' was written whilst he watched the pattern of the tide and drank in the quiet of the western edge of the Solent.
During a walk through Luccombe Chine near Shanklin, Keats composed his sonnet 'On the Sea', whilst David Copperfield was partly written at nearby Bonchurch by Charles Dickens.
From dinosaur bones, magical Longstones dating back 2500 years, to tales of smuggling and shipwrecks, royalty and ghosts, the Isle of Wight has a host of stories and settings to inspire even the most reluctant creative writer.