"I especially fell in love with the jewelry there which is how the necklace of the novel was inspired," McMillan said. She is the 2017-18 Cuyahoga County Writer-in- Residence and currently serves as a member of. One of the reasons she decided to send him to India was because McMillan lived in New Delhi in 2001 and she fell in love with the country. Claire McMillan is the author of Gilded Age and The Necklace. But that decision he makes has ramifications through history," McMillan said.Īmbrose travels to India in the 1920's, where he discovers the necklace that's at the center of the novel. His response is to try and break out of that by travelling and leaving and seeing the world. "He feels hemmed in by society and the expectations put on him. She decided to base one of the main protaganists of her novel on him with the character of Ambrose Quincy, the son of a robber baron. I kind of fell a little bit in love with him," McMillan admits. There was a very evocative, romantic, poetic tone to his journals and his writings.
McMillan married into Cleveland's Mather family and today lives on the family farm outside of Cleveland.ĭigging through the Mather family archives, McMillan discovered the travel journals of Amasa Stone Mather from 1907. When Claire McMillan was looking for inspiration for her new novel The Necklace she found herself climbing her husband's family tree.
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