Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

I've read a couple of other books by Susan Vreeland (Girl in Hyacinth Blue, and Luncheon of the Boating Party) and enjoyed them. She does a good job of incorporating real people and their lives into a fictional biographical account.

I put this book on my Kindle a couple of vacations ago, and never got around to it. This time I decided to give it a go. I wish I could have seen the jacket cover in color. I would have referred to it often as I went along in the story.

The book is about Clara Driscoll, who worked for Louis Comfort Tiffany as a stained glass designer and creator. Tiffany's was the only art glass company to employ women, and this book tells about that women's department (headed by Clara Driscoll). As a matter of interest, no married women were allowed to work there.

I liked the book. I like learning about people who really lived, and created things that I've seen (the Tiffany lamp shades, for example). It gave a lot of detail about the design and creating of stained glass windows, lampshades, and mosaics. A lot of detail. It almost derailed me a couple of times, but the story began to pick up and it all came together nicely.