Declan Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 re Arnold Bennett..didn't he drive one of the first TT cars...is his name on a plaque alongside Woodlands House in Douglas.... ...most excellent info.... Gorden Bennett! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Arnold Bennett included the Isle of Man in many of his books - Anna of Five Towns has a chapter set in Port Erin, there's a wonderful short story called Under the Clock in which the Island features. I guess he must have been a visitor to the Island. John Betjamin was a regular visitor, and described the Island as a microcosm of Western Civilization "all human life is there". Hall Caine lived on the Island, and wrote The Manxman and The Deemster, amongst others about the Island. Although his star has set now he was a major author around the turn of the 20th centuary. In Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten, Laxey is the headquarters Goliath Corporation, an evil multinational with supra-govermental powers and asperations to become a consumer driven religious entity. The Island's 200,000 residents do nothing "but support, or support the support of the one enterprise that dominated the small island" so no change there. Although Manxchatterbox and Sir Dick will be pleased to know Douglas Sea Terminal is connected to New York by gravitube. Renamed Goliathopolis, Laxey is the Hong Kong of the British Isles - "a forrest of glassy towers stretching up the hillside to Snaefell". So visitors drawn to the Island by this book might be disappointed to find an electric railway and a waterwheel. Well, well, I'm reading a Jasper Fforde book at the moment, ( at a snail's pace) so I will look out for the IOM connections! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Well, well, I'm reading a Jasper Fforde book at the moment, ( at a snail's pace) so I will look out for the IOM connections! Which one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 The Well of Lost Plots. A bit like here really! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxchatterbox Posted January 23, 2006 Author Share Posted January 23, 2006 ...god this is all great info...makes you wonder why the DTL don't have a guide book available...pity we don't have a scheme like they do in Ireland to attract writers etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 The Well of Lost Plots. A bit like here really! That's the third in the quadology (or whatever a trilogy with four books called) the Island crops up in the fourth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Not mentioned yet but I thought that it might be of interest: While the Light Lasts is a selection of short stories by Agatha Christie. One of those short stories is called Manx Gold. Most interesting of all is a story called Manx Gold, commissioned from Christie for a real-life treasure hunt on the Isle of Man in 1930. It was the first event of its kind in the world, and holidaymakers had to solve clues in the story to locate four genuine miniature treasure chests planted on the island. Though a quarter of a million booklets containing the story were printed, only one original copy is known to have survived. I actually managed to track down this reprinted version and I now have a copy of it. Link: Christie News Stav. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumble Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 The Well of Lost Plots. A bit like here really! That's the third in the quadology (or whatever a trilogy with four books called) the Island crops up in the fourth. Aaaargh....manxchatterbox is the mispelling vyrus.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahc Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Mr Daffodil himself, William Wordsworth: Some poems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Rudyard Kipling visited and stayed with Hall Caine at Greeba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I'm sure lots of famous people will have had a crap in the loos at the Villa - maybe put a sign up and advertise the fact, better still why not just provide a marker pen they can write their own names up after a performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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