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by Florence Barclay
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Author: Florence Barclay
Publisher: Classic Books (May 2000)
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Category: Literature
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The Rosary is one of those wonderful but unfortunately completely overlooked books. This romance novel was apparently the best-seller of the year 1910, so I thought I would test the durability of its appeal.
The Rosary is one of those wonderful but unfortunately completely overlooked books. It deserves to rank as high as books by Jane Austen, . Alcott, Charlotte Bronte and . Montgomery, yet few people have ever heard of it. Such a shame because it is one of the most beautiful and romantic books I've ever read. Florence L. Barclay paints very vivid pictures for her readers and makes the book impossible to put down. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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Florence Barclay wrote eleven books in all, including a work of non-fiction. Her novel The Mistress of Shenstone (1910) was made into a silent film of the same title in 1921. The Mistress of Shenstone (1910). The Following of the Star (1911). Her short story Under the Mulberry Tree appeared in the special issue called "The Spring Romance Number" of the Ladies Home Journal of 11 May 1911. Florence Barclay died in 1921 at the age of fifty-eight. The Life of Florence Barclay: a study in personality was published anonymously that year by G. P. Putnam's Sons "by one of Her Daughters. Through the Postern Gate (1911).
A runaway best seller in 1910, forgotten by 1930, FLorence L. Barclay's novel THE ROSARY was re-discovered by movie star Nelson Eddy in 1948 as a possible film vehicle for himself and screen singing partner. Free 5-8 business-day shipping within the . Prices may vary for AK and H.
This forgotten, 1910 best-seller still holds the power to charm and delight the modern-day reader. One of the most poignant love stories ever written, The Rosary by Florence Louisa Barclay takes its title from the name of a song that was a chart-buster in the early twentieth-century. The sentimental song written by American lyricist Ethelbert Nevin became an instant hit and features in the novel as the song in which the ill-fated lovers meet for the first time. The heroine Jane Champion is gifted with true inner beauty which shines through in her sublime voice.
Home Florence L. Barclay The Rosary. She was looking her best in her Norfolk coat and skirt of brown tweedwith hints of green and orange in it, plenty of useful pockets pipedwith leather, leather buttons, and a broad band of leather round thebottom of the skirt. A connoisseur would have named at once the one andonly firm from which that costume could have come, and the hatter whosupplied the soft green Tyrolian hat-for Jane scorned pithhelmets-which matched it so admirably.
Florence Louisa Barclay was an English romantic novelist and short story writer. The Rosary" is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. She wrote 11 novels in her life time, some of which became bestsellers and popular even today. She loves him back, but does not trust his love, as is known to be a great lover of beauty, and she - alas - is very plain. Just as she decides to trust him, she receives news that he has been blinded in a hunting accident.
The best archive of free books on the Internet . The Rosary is a novel by Florence L. Barclay According to the New York Times, the novel was the N. bestselling novel of 1910 in the United States.
Save bookmarks and read as many as you like. Barclay. It was first published in 1909 by . Putnam's Sons and was a bestselling novel for many years running, reaching the number one spot in 1910. Florence Louisa Barclay was an English romance novelist and short story writer. According to the New York Times, the novel was the N.
Florence L. Barclay The Rosary. Chapter I enter the duchess. The peaceful stillness of an English summer afternoon brooded over the park and gardens at Overdene
Florence L. The peaceful stillness of an English summer afternoon brooded over the park and gardens at Overdene. A hush of moving sunlight and lengthening shadows lay upon the lawn, and a promise of refreshing coolness made the shade of the great cedar tree a place to be desired.