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Special collections librarian / curator / archivist. Longtime Morgan Library manuscripts curator, Thoreauvian, Brontëite, Belle da Costa Greene devotee. Studying Shaker book culture.
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Is this really “Quakerlike” Jane Eyre, whose greatest fashion extravagance was a “sober black satin and pearl-grey silk” gown? I wrote about Marianne Moore's copy of Brontë's novel and its bombshell cover girl: rosenbach.org/blog/governe...

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Bold Anne Brontë, born on this day in 1820, from her preface to “Tenant…” "I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”

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YES 🪴

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I was surprised to find that poet Marianne Moore’s copy of Jane Eyre (Chicago, ca. 1907) depicts Jane in Gibson Girl style! I scoured eBay and found two E.D.E.N Southworth novels on which the publisher slapped the same image… (Jane Eyre: collection of the Rosenbach)

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Not sure what to post on this site… everyone on here seems to be some kind of librarian

submitted 107 days ago • 19 comments

"Miss [Belle da Costa] Greene telephoned me the other day about the work at the Lenox & said she was having the time of her life!" (Junius Morgan, 1905) On view @ Princeton: earliest known reference to Greene's work for Morgan. She’s at the dawn of her career, dusting & bookplating with delight!

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“Let’s start all over just as if the past had never been” - a favorite and fitting entry from the diary of Canterbury Shaker sister Josephine Wilson 🦋

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