A Studio on Bleecker Street

Clara Bowman is like most society women recently turned 18 in New York in the early days of the Gilded Age. Until the man everyone expects her to marry dies in a train accident in Queens n May 1872. Her ordered life turns to shambles until she discovers an artist painting roses in a corner of London's Regent's Park and who ignites in Clara a passion to recover through sketches and portraits and landscapes freed of the expectations of others and freed to be herself.It will take time work and disappointments and obstacles for Miss Clara Bowman. This is the story about her breaking free from her family's and society's expectations. It is not an easy journey though she eventually obtains her family's support and she encounters real and emotional pain again and again but this story set in the early days of the Gilded Age is about a woman's fulfillment.This novel is related to but is not a sequel to Róisín Campbell published in 2020. Many characters in that book appear here and some of their stories after the end of that book are revealed here. This is however a separate story. That of Clara Bowman.