Christine Nelson
@cnlibrarian.bsky.social
Special collections librarian / curator / archivist. Longtime Morgan Library manuscripts curator, Thoreauvian, Brontëite, Belle da Costa Greene devotee. Studying Shaker book culture.
I have the librarian version ❤️
April 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I have the librarian version ❤️
The power of "a small act of kindness, decency, and love." Cory Booker speaking in my friends' backyard in West Philly in April 2016
April 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The power of "a small act of kindness, decency, and love." Cory Booker speaking in my friends' backyard in West Philly in April 2016
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...
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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...
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...
January 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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...
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.”
"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.”
January 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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.”
"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.”
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)
(Jane Eyre: collection of the Rosenbach)
November 19, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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)
(Jane Eyre: collection of the Rosenbach)
"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!
On view @ Princeton: earliest known reference to Greene's work for Morgan. She’s at the dawn of her career, dusting & bookplating with delight!
November 13, 2024 at 6:05 PM
"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!
On view @ Princeton: earliest known reference to Greene's work for Morgan. She’s at the dawn of her career, dusting & bookplating with delight!
“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 🦋
November 11, 2024 at 8:46 PM
“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 🦋