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described the novel as "a glorious example of romance in its most classic literary sense: exhilarating, exuberant, and rich with the jeweled tones of
England in the 1300s". Nick Rennison believes that the novel has retained its popularity "because of the skill with which evokes the world her heroine
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to become an author of historical fiction, and the novel would also later inspire her non-fiction study,
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