making a “model of paper and linen so that Mr. Tiffany could see exactly what [her] idea was.” In a letter the following year, she tells her family: “This Dragonfly lamp is an idea that I ...

Noble weaves the lives of the women artisans into historical fiction in her novel "The Tiffany Girls." "When Clara did her famous dragonfly lamp, she was out bicycling in Central Park and saw the ...