Clara and Mr. Tiffany : A Novel (Paperback)

from arthistorychick

Historical fiction author Susan Vreeland has done it again! In her latest novel, Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel, Vreeland creates a wonderfully compelling story of an artist and the world she lived and worked in. This fascinating story traces sixteen years of Clara Driscoll's life between 1892 an...

from Letter4No1

Clara works for Mr. Louis Comfort Tiffany at his glass studio. What starts as just jobs in elegant stained glass windows turns into her own personal renaissance when she realizes they can take the same simple principles and make lamps. While Clara fights to establisher herself, and her department...

from whitreidtan

History is written by the victors, those with money, and for a long time, exclusively by men. Women's contributions to arts and sciences remained all but unacknowledged with others being given credit for their innovations. Susan Vreeland's novel Clara and Mr. Tiffany probes one such omission and ...

from Olivermagnus

Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland4.5 StarsSusan Vreeland's novel Clara and Mr. Tiffany is based on fact. Clara Driscoll worked for Louis Comfort Tiffany and was instrumental in many of the company's glass designs. In this novel, the author suggests that the famous Tiffany lamps were Clara's...

from ForeignCircus

This is a tough review for me because despite the fact that I really wanted to love this book, I just couldn't. I found Clara a strangely flat character despite the interesting times in which she lived; it was hard for me to feel an emotional connection to her. I always felt that Clara was remote...