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Fantastic talk last night by @kawulf.bsky.social (in a gorgeous Philly venue) about her long-awaited book about genealogical practices in the 18th-century British Atlantic. Preorder now! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Cover of Karin Wulf’s book Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America

View through an arched window into an urban garden with a tree in bloom

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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

YES - this is the kind of creative partnership among librarians, archivists, and communities that an enlightened government should be PROUD to fund.

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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Absolutely disgusted at this new attack on “obscure” IMLS, which has provided so much transformative support to so many small orgs, including my beloved Canterbury Shaker Village

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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Good for you for taking this leap, Ben, and congrats!

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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Phew - that is a TON of prep! Sounds like a fantastic experience - well done!

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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Posing before “The Triumph of Avarice” nice 😀

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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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...

Book cover with the title “Jane Eyre” over a chromolithograph portrait of a white woman with upswept red hair and red lips

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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I commuted Philly to NY thrice weekly for 18 years 😩 - mostly on a BUS - you can do it! (though I wish I hadn’t…)

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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I’m glad you enjoy the portrait gallery - I loved working on it - especially unearthing all the newspaper appearances!

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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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)

Three books (How He Won Her, Ismael, Jane Eyre), all with the same full-page cover image of a white woman with red hair in an Edwardian updo and with bright red lips.

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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Thanks for putting this together - would love to be added!

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B. Otterlake @izzz.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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

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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Morgan had many books in storage at the Lenox Library as construction proceeded on his new library. Greene was engaged to help get them ready to be moved. (Letter first cited by Daria Rose Foner and Colin B. Bailey in our 2023 book "J. Pierpont Morgan's Library: Building the Bookman's Paradise.")

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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

"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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Christine Nelson @cnlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

“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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