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ELAINE OF ASTOLAT / THE LADY OF SHALOTT

Elaine of Astolat is the maiden who dies of unrequited love for Lancelot and floats in a barge to Camelot with a letter for Lancelot clutched in her lifeless hand. She appears in Malory and in Tennyson's idyll of "Lancelot and Elaine." The figure of Elaine in the barge became one of the most popular Victorian images.

TEXTS:

Adams, Oscar Fay (1855-1919), "The Water Carriers" (1886)
Akhurst, W. M. (1822-1878), Arthur the King, or, The Knights of the Round Table and Other Funny-ture (1871)
Baring, Maurice (1874-1945), "The Camelot Jousts" (1910)
Fowler Wright, S[ydney] (1874-1965), "The Ballad of Elaine" (from the S. Fowler Wright Website)
Hamley, General Edward, "Sir Tray: An Arthurian Idyl" (1873)
Kilmer, Aline (1888-1941), "For All Ladies of Shalott" (1921)
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950), "Elaine" (1921)
Nieman, Valerie, "Elaine the Fair Accuses Lancelot" (2007)
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (1844-1911), "Elaine and Elaine" (1883)
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (1844-1911), "The Lady of Shalott" (1871)
Rhodes, W[illiam] H[enry] (1822-1876), "Rosenthal's Elaine" (1876)
Steynor, Morley, "Lancelot and Elaine: A Play in Five Acts" (1909)
Stoddard, Elizabeth (1823-1902), "Before the Mirror" (1895)
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892), "The Lady of Shalott" (original version, 1833)
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892), "The Lady of Shalott" (revised version, 1842)
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892), "The Lady of Shalott" (compare the 1833 and the 1842 versions)
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892), "Lancelot and Elaine" from The Idylls of the King (1859)

IMAGES:

Bowley, M., "Elaine Sews a Cover for Lancelot's Shield"
Bowley, M., "King Arthur Reads Elaine's Letter"
Bowley, M., "The Lady of Shalott"
Bowley, M., "The Lily Maid"
Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue- (1872-1945), "Elaine and Lancelot" (1911)
Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue- (1872-1945), "Elaine Being Carried to the Barge" (1911)
Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue- (1872-1945), "Elaine Sewing a Cover for Lancelot's Shield" (1911)
Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue- (1872-1945), "Elaine and Lancelot" (1911)
Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue- (1872-1945), "Elaine with Lancelot's Shield" (1911)
Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue- (1872-1945), "Enid, Guinevere, and Vivien" (1911)
Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue- (1872-1945), "Lancelot Musing on Elaine's Death" (1911)
Brundage, Frances (1854-1937), "The Lady of Shalott"
Cameron, Julia Margaret (1815-1879), "The Corpse of Elaine in the Palace of King Arthur" (1875)
Cameron, Julia Margaret (1815-1879), "Elaine in the Barge" (1875)
Cameron, Julia Margaret (1815-1879), "Elaine, the Lily Maid of Astolat" (1875)
Doré Gustave (1832-83), "The Body of Elaine on Its Way to King Arthur's Palace" (188-)
Doré Gustave (1832-83), "Elaine on Her Road to the Cave of Lancelot" (188-)
Doré Gustave (1832-83), "King Arthur Reading the Letter of Elaine" (188-)
Doré Gustave (1832-83), "Lancelot Approaching the Castle of Astolat" (188-)
Doré Gustave (1832-83), "Lancelot Bids Adieu to Elaine" (188-)
Doré Gustave (1832-83), "Lancelot Relating His Adventures" (188-)
Doré Gustave (1832-83), "The Remorse of Lancelot" (188-)
Doré Gustave (1832-83), "Torre and Lavaine Bid Farewell to the Body of Elaine" (188-)
Ford, H. J. (1860-1941), Ford, H. J. (1860-1941), The Black Barget" (1902)
Ford, H. J. (1860-1941), Elaine Ties Her Sleeve Round Sir Lancelot's Helmet" (1902)
Garrett, Edmund H. (1853-1929), "Elaine and Launcelot's Shield" (1901)
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910), "The Lady of Shalott" (1857)
Kirk, M[aria]. L[ouise]. (1860-193x), "'And the Dead, Oared by the Dumb, Went Upward with the Flood'" (1912)
Mackenzie, T[homas] (1887-1944), "At Last She Came to the Little Hermitage" (n.d.; 1920?)
Pyle, Howard (1853-1911), "The Lady of Shalott" (1881)
Pyle, Howard (1853-1911), "The Lady of Shalott Weaving" (1881)
Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939), "How King Arthur and Queen Guenever went to see the barge that bore the corpse of Elaine the fair Maiden of Astolat" (1917)
Rhead, George Wooliscroft (1854-1920) & Louis (1857-1926), "Elaine with Lancelot's Shield" (1898)
Rhead, George Wooliscroft (1854-1920) & Louis (1857-1926), "Elaine Worships Lancelot" (1898)
Rhead, George Wooliscroft (1854-1920) & Louis (1857-1926), "Elaine's Barge Arrives at Camelot" (1898)
Rhead, George Wooliscroft (1854-1920) & Louis (1857-1926), "Elaine's Funeral" (1898)
Rhead, George Wooliscroft (1854-1920) & Louis (1857-1926), "Guinevere Scorns Lancelot's Gift" (1898)
Rhead, George Wooliscroft (1854-1920) & Louis (1857-1926), "Lancelot Nursed by Elaine" (1898)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882), "The Lady of Shalott" (1857)
Rutland, Florence M, "The Lady of Shalott" (1896)
Smith, John Moyr, "Elaine" (c. 1875)
Speed, Lancelot (1860-1931), "Then was Sir Lancelot sent for, and the letter read aloud by a clerk" (1912)