![]() ![]() And so she spends her time sitting by her window, watching the reflected world in her mirror, recording it with her needle and thread in tapestry”. ![]() She is cursed to sit alone and to see the bustling world of Camelot below only through its reflection in her mirror. It is about a woman, the Lady of Shalott, who is confined in a tower on an island in a river that flows to Camelot. “The title Tirra Lirra by the River comes from one of Tennyson’s most popular and tragic poems, ‘The Lady of Shalott’. The story of the poem: (Thanks to Jane Gleeson-white for her excellent summary of the poem’s plot in her 2010 Overland article “Farewell Jessica Anderson-1916-2010-and Thanks”) It comes from a romantic poem, The Lady of Shalott, by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1842 it is his most tragic one. ![]() Yet many readers are unaware of the origin of the title. In 1978, Jessica Anderson won the the Miles Franklin Literary Award for her fourth novel, Tirra Lirra by the River, published by Macmillan. Where does the title of this book come from? ![]()
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