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Florence L. Barclay
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Born Florence Louisa Charlesworth in Limpsfield, Surrey, England on December 2, 1862. Her father was a local Anglican rector and her sister was Maud Ballington Booth, the Salvation Army leader and co-founder of Volunteers of America. She married Rev. Charles W. Barclay in 1881. She was mother of eight children. She started written when health problems left her bedridden for a short time when she was in her early forties.
She published one book, Guy Mervyn (1891) under the pen name Brandon Roy.
Book List in Order: 19 titles
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The Upas Tree
- May-2008
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Add a dash of passion to the holiday season -- or any time of the year -- with this stirring romance novel from Florence Barclay, author of The Rosary. With a dastardly villain, an intriguing plot, and a swoon-worthy love affair, The Upas Tree is wel...
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The Mistress of Shenstone
- Feb-2012
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Florence Louisa Barclay (2 December 1862 - 10 March 1921) was an English romance novelist and short story writer.She was born Florence Louisa Charlesworth in Limpsfield, Surrey, England, the daughter of the local Anglican rector. One of three girls, ...
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The White Ladies of Worcester
- Feb-2012
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The slanting rays of afternoon sunshine, pouring through stone arches, lay in broad, golden bands, upon the flags of the Convent cloister. The old lay-sister, Mary Antony, stepped from the cool shade of the cell passage and, blinking at the sunshine,...
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The Following of the Star
- Sep-2012
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The author of the worldwide bestseller The Rosary, Florence Barclay is best known for engaging tales of love and commitment that unfurl within a strongly moral context, proving that passion doesn't always have to be forbidden or impure to be invigora...
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Through the Postern Gate
- Oct-2012
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Absolute romance, distinctly modern and appealing to the regular novel reader of somewhat uncritical taste, may be found in "Through the Postern Gate." The author has achieved fame in a former story which ranked among the "best sellers."...
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The Wheels of Time
- Jul-2013
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The Wheels of Time A Charmingly touching Story by Florence BarclayIt is a prequel to The Rosary.Dr. Deryck Brand stood, with his hand on the door-knob, looking back into his wife's boudoir. There was nothing in that room suggestive of town or of town...
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My Heart's Right There
- Aug-2013
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My Heart's Right There by Florence L. BarclayThe soldier's baby girl, in her blue print frock and white pinafore, firmly fixed into a high chair, sat up at the kitchen table, eagerly awaiting her dinner. The high chair had seen its best days at the R...
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The Rosary Novel
- Apr-2016
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The Rosary" is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. 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 t...
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The White Ladies of Worcester; A Romance of the Twelfth Century. Novel
- Apr-2016
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It is the 12th century in the city of Worcester, England. At the Nunnery of the White Ladies, old lay-sister Mary Antony performs her daily ritual. As the nuns return from Vespers through the underground passage into the cloisters, she counts them in...
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The Broken Halo
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
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Guy Mervyn
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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Returned Empty
GLASS WITH CARE printed on one side; and, on the other, RETURNED EMPTY. Beneath the former was written, in red ink: Luke xii. 6,beneath the latter: September 12, 1883. This label had been tied to the helpless bundle left, thirty years before on a doo...
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Through The Postern Gate - A Romance Of Seven Days
Mrs. Barclay's story "Through the Postern Gate" was first bought into print as a serial in the Ladies' Home Journal, of Philadelphia, under the title of "Under the Mulberry Tree." The change of title was necessitated by the discovery that "Under the ...
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The Upas Tree. A Christmass Story for All the Year
Excerpt from The Upas Tree
He heard them now, however - murmured very softly; and he caught her to him with sudden passion, kissing her hair.
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The White Ladies of Worcester. A Romance of the 12th Century
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The Rosary
The story of a young artist who is reputed to love beauty above all else in the world, but who, when blinded through an accident, gains life's greatest happiness. A rare story of the great passion of two real people superbly capable of love, its sacr...
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