Florence L. Barclay 
The White Ladies of Worcester 
Historical Romance

‘The White Ladies of Worcester’ is an inspiring romantic story of a nun who enters a convent thinking her lover is dead and a knight who was told his lady had married another. As the nuns in the Nunnery of the White Ladies return from Vespers through the underground passage into the cloisters, an old lay-sister Mary Antony counts them every time by dropping one pea for each nun from her hand into a bag. However, one evening her count turns out differently – the nuns pass, all the peas drop into the bag, and then one more nun passes by, making the old lady think that there might be an intruder into the convent…

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Florence Louisa Barclay (1862-1921) was an English romance novelist and short story writer, best known for her novel ‘Rosary’ published in 1909. She wrote eleven books in all, including a work of non-fiction. Apart from ‘Rosary’, which became an international success, some of her most important novels are ‘The Mistress of Shenstone’ (1910), ‘The Following of the Star’ (1911), ‘The Broken Halo’ (1913), ‘The White Ladies of Worcester’ (1917) etc.