Autographed portrait of Clara Lanza by Valerian Gribayédoff published 30 June 1888 in a New York newspaper.
Marquise Clara Hammond Lanza (1858–1939) was an American author of realistic fiction in New York. She carried on an affectionate correspondence with George Moore for several years and gave him editorial and professional advice, though they did not meet in person.
Clara Lanza on the cover of her novel Basil Morton’s Transgression (New York, Minerva, 1889), the same year that Minerva brought out George Moore’s novel Mike Fletcher.
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