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| − | [[Category:RITA Winning Title]] | + | [[Category:RITA Winning Title]] [[Category:1986 Releases]] |
| + | * '''Author''': [[Robyn Carr]] | ||
| + | * '''Publisher''': [[Little Brown and Company|Little Brown & Co]] | ||
| + | * '''Year''': 1986 | ||
| + | * '''Amazon Listing''' - [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316129690/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 By Right Of Arms] - Out-of-Print | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | A modern telling the [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/Cinder/cin4.htm 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]] | ||
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| + | == Awards == | ||
| + | * [[1987 Golden Medallion Winners|1987 Golden Medallion]] in the [[RITA®: Best Long Historical Romance|Historical Category]] | ||
Revision as of 17:58, 26 March 2006
- Author: Robyn Carr
- Publisher: Little Brown & Co
- Year: 1986
- Amazon Listing - By Right Of Arms - Out-of-Print
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 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]]
