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Author:  Florence Barclay

Jane Champion is a talented, good-natured and independent woman, but she’s very aware that she’s no beauty. In fact, she’s too tall, very plain, and expects she’ll spend her life as a spinster. Garth Dalmain is a painter who is vibrant, wealthy, extraordinarily handsome, and well known as a lover of great beauty.

When Garth hears Jane sing the popular song, The Rosary, at a performance, he sees the great beauty of her soul and is immediately smitten. He wants to marry Jane, and declares his undying love for her. But certain that such an incredible man could never be happy spending the rest of his life with a plain-looking woman, Jane turns him down. Broken-hearted, the two part ways, until a tragedy reunites them.

Florence Louisa Barclay She was born Florence Louisa Charlesworth in Limpsfield, Surrey, England, the daughter of the local Anglican rector. One of three girls, she was a sister to Maud Ballington Booth, the Salvation Army leader and co-founder of the Volunteers of America. When Florence was seven years old, the family moved to Limehouse in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. In 1881, Florence Charlesworth married the Rev. Charles W. Barclay and honeymooned in the Holy Land, where, in Shechem, they reportedly discovered Jacob’s Well, the place where, according to the Gospel of St John, Jesus met the woman of Samaria (2 December 1862 – 10 March 1921) was an English romance novelist and short story writer.

168 pages (Soft Cover)