Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

To avoid a curse which fortells her doom if ever she looks upon the city of Camelot, the fairy lady of Shalott never leaves her tower. When in her mirror she sees Sir Lancelot, she realizes that her attempt to trick fate has failed.

A fictionalized account of events leading up to the suicidal charge on Russian forces by the British at Balaklava during the Crimean War.