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| − | [[Category:RITA Winning Title]] [[Category:1986 Releases]] | + | [[Category:RITA Winning Title]] [[Category:1986 Releases]] [[Category:Historical Romance]] |
* '''Author''': [[Robyn Carr]] | * '''Author''': [[Robyn Carr]] | ||
* '''Publisher''': [[Little Brown and Company|Little Brown & Co]] | * '''Publisher''': [[Little Brown and Company|Little Brown & Co]] | ||
* '''Year''': 1986 | * '''Year''': 1986 | ||
| − | * '''Amazon Listing''' | + | * '''Amazon Listing''': [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316129690/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 By Right Of Arms] - Out-of-Print |
| + | ==Book Description== | ||
Sir Hyatt Laidley, rewarded by Prince Edward, is sent to conquer De la Noye. As part of his prize, he claims the dead master's wife Aurelie. Aurelie does not accept her fate quietly, fighting her conqueror with everything she has. | Sir Hyatt Laidley, rewarded by Prince Edward, is sent to conquer De la Noye. As part of his prize, he claims the dead master's wife Aurelie. Aurelie does not accept her fate quietly, fighting her conqueror with everything she has. | ||
Revision as of 19:38, 1 November 2008
- Author: Robyn Carr
- Publisher: Little Brown & Co
- Year: 1986
- Amazon Listing: By Right Of Arms - Out-of-Print
Book Description
Sir Hyatt Laidley, rewarded by Prince Edward, is sent to conquer De la Noye. As part of his prize, he claims the dead master's wife Aurelie. Aurelie does not accept her fate quietly, fighting her conqueror with everything she has.
A modern telling of the Patient Griselda myth -- where Griselda is a chaste, above reproach wife whose love and fidelity is tested repeatedly (from "The Clerk's Tale", Canterbury Tales and Plutarch, among others)
