A StoneCrabs Theatre Company Project
(1809-1892) Farringford House in Bedbury Lane in the small town of Freshwater on the Isle of Wight was the home of Lord Alfred Tennyson and his wife for 39 years.… Continue reading Lord Alfred Douglas Tennyson
(1854-1900) Oscar Wilde visited Ryde on the north coast of the Isle of Wight in 1884 to give a lecture on ‘Dress’. We found contrasting reports of his visit in… Continue reading Oscar Wilde
(1837-1909) Algernon Charles Swinburne is buried at St. Boniface Church in Bonchurch, Isle of Wight. He was an openly gay English poet, playwright and novelist. His childhood was largely spent… Continue reading Algernon Charles Swinburne
(1882-1941) Fiercely intelligent feminist writer Virginia Woolf had various affairs with both men and women, most famously a ten-year affair with Vita Sackville-West. Her connection to the Isle of Wight… Continue reading Virginia Woolf
(1893-1944) Robert Nichols was an English poet and playwright often referred to as one of the First World War ‘war poets’. He was born on the Isle of Wight in… Continue reading Robert Nichols
(1920’s) ‘Bill Stickers’, ‘Sister Agatha’, ‘Red Biddy/ White Biddy’ and ‘Kate O’Brien the Nark’ were pseudonyms used by a group of young women who came together to form what was… Continue reading The Ferguson Gang
(1900 – 1993) Marion Barbara Carstairs was known as ‘Joe’, she had numerous female lovers, which were said to include Oscar Wilde’s niece, Dolly Wilde, as well as Hollywood… Continue reading Joe ‘Marion’ Carstairs
