The title of the Agatha Christie story The Mirror Cracked comes from which poem by Tennyson?
The Mirror Crack'd filmmaking was only temporary. "Doing something once in a while, like "The Mirror Crack'd," is fine and it makes me feel like Cinderella at the ball. But as a steady diet - no way." The title - shortened from the one used for Christie's book - is part of a line from "The Lady of Shalott" by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Biographers theorise that Christie used an incident in the real-life of American film star Gene Tierney as the basis of the plot of "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side". In June 1943, while pregnant with her
The Princess (Tennyson poem) The Princess (Tennyson poem) The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, written by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1847. Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1850 to 1892 and remains one of the most popular English poets. The poem tells the story of a heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university where men are forbidden to enter. The prince to whom she was betrothed in infancy enters the university with two friends, disguised as women students. They are discovered and flee, but eventually they fight a battle for the princess's