The popular novel 'The Blue Lagoon' first published in 1908

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Other local writers whose works are held include

Alfred Noyes ( several first editions including 'Voltaire' )

Alice Meynell ( several volumes of her poems & essays )

Elizabeth Missing Sewell ( several volumes including 'Ursula' )

Pearl Craigie ( four volumes including her first novel 'The Dream and the Business' )

Also a number of works by Algernon Swinburne including his controversial 'Poems & Ballard's'

Plus works by - Thomas Carlyle - Charles Dickens - Winston Churchill - Alfred Tennyson

Also held

Numerous IOW Guide books including - Beautiful Britain - Red Guide - Ward Lock - Lovely Britain

Local Kelly's Street Directories for 1935 / 37 / 53

The Diaries of Emily Smith

Life & Letters of Lord Macaulay

Arthur Mee's Hampshire and the IOW

Almost Fairyland - John Morgan Richards

A Royalists Notebook - Sir John Oglander

Lady Elizabeth Butler - Battle Artist 1846 - 1933

Trial of A. J. Monson (Notable British Trials Series)

Rain Upon Godshill - J.B.Priestley ( autobiography )

Biographies of - Pearl Craigie - George Morland - Algernon Swinburne - Alice Meynell - Philip Bagwell

Books by - Peter Dawlish - Helen Mathers - E. Boucher James - David Duff - Adrian Plass - Dolly Shepherd - Robert Lawn - Richard Freeborn - David Couling - Donald Parr

Books about - Steephill Castle - Dialects - Pluto Pipe Line - Bembridge - Old Time Characters - Churches - Hampshire - Tracing Ancestors - Ventnor West Branch - Shipwrecks - Farmhouses & Cottages - Manor Houses - Cowes & East Cowes - Etiquette - Natural History - Royal National Hospital - Hymn Writers

( see also Local History Publications section )