The Lady of Shalott
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"The Lady of Shalott" is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson and one of his best-known works. Inspired by the 13th-century Italian short prose text La Damigella di Scalot
An 1853 illustration by Elizabeth Siddal
William Maw Egley, The Lady of Shalott, 1858
The Lady of Shalott by Walter Crane, 1862
The Lady of Shalott by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1875)
Gwenhwyfach
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Gwenhwyfach was a sister of Gwenhwyfar in medieval Welsh Arthurian legend. The tradition surrounding her is preserved in fragmentary form in two Welsh Triads and the Mabinogi tale of Culhwch and Olwen
"How King Artus slept each day with the Lady of Camelide and promised to marry her." An illustration from Lancelot en prose (c. 1494)
