One of the television shows I suffer an addiction to is the PBS show History Detectives. I recently watched an episode about a man whose great grandmother designed stained glass windows for Tiffany. Gwendolyn Wright, one of the detectives on the show, eventually talks to the author of A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls by Margi Hofer, Martin Eidelberg, and Nina Gray. Apparently, Tiffany had some progressive ideas about employing women at a time when societal expectations limited a woman's options to teaching or nursing. The Tiffany Girls were respected artists in their own right; this book definitely sounds like an interesting read!
Currently Reading (if I can get my cat off of my books):
Ladies of the field: early women archaeologists by Amanda Adams
Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal by JK Rowling
My To-Read-Next list:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in it by Sundee T. Frazier
The Information Officer by Mark Mills
Jane Fairfax by Joan Aiken
Mockingbird: a portrait of Harper Lee by Charles Shields
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