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Autograph manuscript of THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE
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Autograph manuscript of THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE

Barclay, Florence L.
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Used Very good.
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n.p.: n.p., 1910. Very good.. Original draft, entirely written out by hand, of the sequel to the international sensation THE ROSARY. While Florence Barclay was working on this manuscript, she was in the midst of a life-changing experience: her romance novel THE ROSARY had just become one of the biggest blockbuster novels of the Edwardian era. It was not only a runaway bestseller for years on end, but also parodied by PUNCH, made into at least five films, and described by the Queen of England herself as her favorite book of the year. According to Rachel Anderson, it was "said to have been read and wept over by every housemaid in the British Isles." THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE was something of its sequel, featuring characters first introduced in THE ROSARY. THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE is an exquisite romance between a widow and the man who accidentally killed her husband: like THE ROSARY, it combines a moving arc of emotional development with an alluring charisma between the main characters. When Barclay… Read More
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