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The Tiffany Girls: A Novel

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New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble wows with a gripping historical novel about the real-life “Tiffany Girls,” a fascinating and largely unknown group of women artists behind Tiffany’s most legendary glassworks.It’s 1899, and Manhattan is abuzz. Louis Comfort Tiffany, famous for his stained-glass windows, is planning a unique installation at the Paris World’s Fair, the largest in history. At their fifth-floor studio on Fourth Avenue, the artists of the Women’s Division of the Tiffany Glass Company are already working longer shifts to finish the pieces that Tiffany hopes will prove that he is the world’s finest artist in glass. Known as the “Tiffany Girls,” these women are responsible for much of the design and construction of Tiffany’s extraordinary glassworks, but none receive credit.Emilie Pascal, daughter of an art forger, has been shunned in Paris art circles after the unmasking of her abusive father. Wanting nothing more than a chance to start a new life, she forges a letter of recommendation in hopes of fulfilling her destiny as an artist in the one place where she will finally be free to live her own life.Grace Griffith is the best copyist in the studio, spending her days cutting glass into floral borders for Tiffany’s religious stained-glass windows. But none of her coworkers know her secret: she is living a double life as a political cartoonist under the pseudonym of G.L. Griffith—hiding her identity as a woman.As manager of the women’s division, Clara Driscoll is responsible for keeping everything on schedule and within budget. But in the lead-up to the most important exhibition of her career, not only are her girls becoming increasingly difficult to wrangle, she finds herself obsessed with a new design: a dragonfly lamp that she has no idea will one day become Tiffany’s signature piece.Brought together by chance, driven by their desire to be artists in one of the only ways acceptable for women in their time, these “Tiffany Girls” will break the glass ceiling of their era and for working women to come. This historical fiction novel set in the Gilded Age of New York City is a perfect gift for any woman interested in art, history, or strong women breaking the glass ceiling of their era. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow Paperbacks (May 9, 2023)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0063252449


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 48


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.94 x 8 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #90,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #233 in Biographical Historical Fiction #446 in Biographical Fiction (Books) #1,550 in Women's Friendship Fiction


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  • Enthralling in its Entirety
The Tiffany Girls is everything the description says and more. It is a novel of art, friendship, and feminism, but includes all of the struggles of women from the late 1800s to early 1900s. Shelley Noble has created a beautiful and heartbreaking story of the lives of a group of women who were brought together through their work. These women had each others back even if they didn't share the same future goals. It was a very good story of the women behind the amazing Tiffany Glass and Mr. Tiffany himself. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2024 by Nanny Lisa

  • A Very Enjoyable Read
There is much to like about The Tiffany Girls by Shelley Nobel! It had all the components that I look for in a novel: it is a well-researched, well-written historical novel that I could “be absorbed into. It is about real women whose lives and contributions to history may have been forgotten or omitted in history, and it tells their stories. I learned there was a women’s shop at Louis C. Tiffany’s New York studio, and that these women had a great hand in creating Tiffany’s pieces! I enjoyed learning more about how Tiffany’s glass windows and lamps were made and that a special glass factory was used to create special glass for him. I was also pleasantly surprised to learn that his studios also produced pottery, as well as glass vases and desk other items for lovely home products. Upon reading the descriptions of the pieces, and the Paris Exhibition, I searched online to find out more about these pieces to learn more about them and to see pictures of the pieces. This is my second book by Shelley Nobel and I look forward to reading more! In fact, I have pre-ordered her next historical novel. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2024 by Tea Enthusiast :O)

  • Checked a lot of boxes for me
Having visited the Tiffany Museum in Winter Park, Florida four times, I was fascinated by photographs and descriptions of the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany and one of his female artists, Clara Driscoll. Thus, Shelley Noble’s Tiffany Girls piqued my interest. I found the 1899 backdrops of the art world in New York and Paris simply delicious—so well-drawn and different from my trilogy’s setting in Martha’s Vineyard and Kansas. This novel checked a lot of boxes for me: insight into American women (the Tiffany girls) making their way in the art world that was still customarily male; inclusion of well-known historical people; and the unusual point of view provided by Emilie, a fugitive from France. I naturally identified with Grace, a fictional character engaged in writing articles about women’s suffrage. She too, had to surmount difficulties because of her gender. Most of Noble’s plot centered on the production of one great work created by Tiffany’s studio for the Paris World’s Fair. During that same period, Clara Driscoll, who helped to manage the Tiffany girls, was simultaneously developing her dragonfly motif that was to become one of the studio’s most popular designs. I enjoyed Noble’s account of how stained glass evolves. Starting as a drawing, it proceeds through many phases: expanding into a “cartoon,” selecting pieces, placing lead lines, and the complicated shipping and display of the fragile masterpiece. Though I would have enjoyed reading more about Clara Driscoll herself, Noble’s account of unmarried women forging careers in art and journalism also kept me engaged. From reading others’ reviews, I’ve since learned that COVID-19 prevented Shelly Noble from visiting the Tiffany sites that I so enjoyed. Employing a narrow focus was an intelligent way to handle the lack of boots-on-the-ground research that the pandemic imposed on the author during the writing of this historical novel. Isn't the cover gorgeous? ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2024 by Dancerwriter

  • Superb language, memorable characters and masterful plot
In 1899, Emilie Pascal, daughter of an infamous Paris art forger, escapes from her father to New York in the hope of finding a new life by joining Mr. Tiffany’s stained glass design works… just in time to join the team preparing for the following year’s Paris World Fair. The immersive, captivating story raises well above the standard of the historical romantic fiction. We live with the Tiffany girls to experience their daily joys and sorrows, learn about design and art, the mystic of colors and glass, fight with them when they need to choose between love and vocation. With its superb language, memorable characters, authentic introduction of historical environment, and masterful plot development, the novel forces the reader to fly through the pages. Several real historical figures and events give the story a highly credible air. A surprising and satisfactory ending will not come before the reader is sitting on pins and needles. The novel surpasses the standard of romantic historical fiction and leaves behind a highly satisfactory, deep reading experience, that would be remembered for a long time. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024 by Robert Bordas

  • Great Book!
This is a very well written, well researched story detailing the world of Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Tiffany Glass Company. The characters are very well defined and interesting. I would have given the book a five star rating, but the author cut the ending way too short. The ending for some of the key characters was well defined, but he ending for the main character, Emilie Pascal, was not. This left me hanging as to her relationship with Leland Bishop. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024 by Linda Sue Stoll

  • Art is Art
What a great read! Once I got started, I could not put this book down. It was moving. You could see these young women at the turn of the century, making their own way in the world. How hard it must have been. Of course, for the colors of glass, like so many art forms,oil, acrylic, pastel, ink, seem to come alive. No matter the form, including the written word, this book definitely comes alive in its wonderful storytelling. It even got me painting again! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2024 by Amazon Customer

  • Needed more
I liked the characters and the tying in various aspects of the history time, but the end was horrible. We went from high drama to .... What happened? It's like the author just moved on to something else and didn't really finish the book. And too often things were never referred to again, though they should have been part of a continuing story. As a stained glass artist, I liked some of the material but really wanted to love this book and it just left me feeling like the drama, drama, drama was for nothing. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2023 by Susan J. Dunham

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