Clara (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Janice Galloway
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1823-1856
- Setting: Germany, France, and Russia
- Principal Characters: Clara Wieck Schumann, Friedrich Wieck, Robert Schumann, Marianne Tromlitz Wieck Bargiel, Clementine Fechner Wieck, Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt
- Genres: Long fiction, Biographical fiction
- Subjects: Wives, Mothers, Parents and children, France or French people, Nineteenth century, Music or musicians, Marriage, Paris, Mental illness, Fathers, Women, Loyalty, Pianos or pianists, Composers, Germany or German people, Career women, Homemakers, Piano music
- Locales: France, Germany, Russia
In her first two novels, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (1989) and Foreign Parts (1994), Janice Galloway focused on the problems faced by ordinary women in modern society. Her third novel differs markedly from those earlier works. Clara is set in the nineteenth century and deals with historical figures and actual events. It is fictional only in that the author sets herself to explore the inner lives of those figures, primarily those of the title character, the celebrated pianist Clara Schumann, and of Clara’s composer husband, Robert Schumann. Most other accounts...
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