Murder in the Manor, our digital storytelling project based on Preston Manor, will be going live this Friday!
To whet your appetite for our murder mystery, here’s an introduction to the characters featured in the story.
Elizabeth Frankson-Yew
Owner of Preston Manor.
Age: 40
Elizabeth is very wealthy and inherited Preston Manor from her mother. She had a horse riding accident when she was young which has left her with a limp. Although active in her youth, she now spends much of her time indoors practising embroidery. She is an avid collector of white ceramic Chinese lions.
Thomas Frankson-Yew
Husband of Elizabeth Frankson-Yew
Age: Mid 50s
Thomas is greedy, irritable and has a glass eye. He keeps a collection of glass eyes in a special cupboard, and chooses the day’s eye to match his mood. He likes his pet falcon. He dislikes his wife, her dogs, and Philip the Butler.
Charlotte Medley
Guest
Age: 23
Charlotte is beautiful, but with a cunning streak. Why is someone like Charlotte spending New Year’s Eve with the Frankson-Yews?
Theodore Thompson
Guest
Age: 22
Theodore has recently made himself part of the Frankson-Yew’s social circle. Although a similar age, he mistrusts Charlotte.
Mary
Maid
Age: 15
Mary hates her work and her life. She is sly and desperate to improve her status.
Philip Gregor Jameson
Butler
Age: Late 50s
Philip has been working at Preston Manor for many years. Self-important, he enjoys being superior to the other servants. But this superiority masks his bitterness: he grew up in a middle class family that fell on hard times, and was forced to go into service.
Whose who’s who?
These characters and their biographies were all created by the young Little Green Pig writers at our very first workshop at Preston Manor. They are entirely fictional, and bear no resemblance to anyone who has ever lived at Preston Manor, but they were nonetheless inspired by the building and its contents.
The character portraits were produced by Rhona Garvin, a Hove based illustrator and Little Green Pig volunteer. Rhona helped at two of the workshops, and when we realised that portraits would help anchor the stories to the individual characters, she produced the illustrations based on the writers’ descriptions.
So is Philip the culprit? Or did Thomas have a particularly mean glass eye fixed in that day? You can solve the mystery this Friday.
The writers
Pearl Ahrens
Morgan Aplvor
Ava Aubrey Conboy
Chaska Covatti
Spike Jackson
Rhys Lamberth
Elsa Merrett
Estanislao Miles
Jasmine Render
Leo Rogers
Cleo Turner-Johnson
Update 29/04/13: Murder in the Manor is now live: murderinthemanor.org.uk
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