The Tiffany Girls by Shelley Noble

 The Tiffany Girls brings a fascinating story of everyday women who worked at workshop for Mr. Tiffany, and were required to remain single in order to work for him. But they were treated equally with male coworkers, receiving equal pay.

NYC, 1899. The story weaves the paths of three ambitious women.

Emilie Pascal, daughter of an art forger, leaves the shunned life in Paris, and arrives in NYC in hopes of working for the studio of Louis C. Tiffany.

Grace Griffith admires Mr. Tiffany for hiring women, who make some of his most praised designs. She wishes she couldn’t be secretive about her dream job, which is being a cartoonist for journals and newspapers.

Clara Driscoll is the manager of the women’s division at Tiffany, and she has her own ambition. She attempts to capture the essence of the flight of dragonflies into a lamp. Later, it becomes Tiffany’s signature design.

As the stories of these women are woven, it is set against the atmospheric background of Tiffany’s workshop and their latest project which they work on for the Paris Exposition. As they work on creating the “Four Seasons” window, there is cutting of the glass, matching of the colors, and painstaking work of putting all the tiny pieces together. Then, the excitement of the big moment comes by displaying it at the Paris Expo. The atmosphere is contagious. It makes you want to be part of it.

It is written with passion and shedding light on every day women, who never truly received credit for their incredible work. Along the way, creating camaraderie among women, friendship and their drive to be artists in the way possible in their time.

Release date: 9 May 2023

Source: William Morrow Publishing