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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.

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Latest posts by cnlibrarian.bsky.social on Bluesky

Will be there!

27.04.2025 01:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is going to be so good!

27.04.2025 00:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am in New York and sorry to miss this, Allie - good luck and have fun!

24.04.2025 13:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely - library workers are essential!

04.04.2025 17:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Me wearing a t-shirt that reads “America needs librarians”

Me wearing a t-shirt that reads “America needs librarians”

I have the librarian version ❤️

04.04.2025 15:59 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I’m assuming the grants we secured are canceled, and the 2025-26 awards will be rescinded. Disgusting.

04.04.2025 02:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The power of "a small act of kindness, decency, and love." Cory Booker speaking in my friends' backyard in West Philly in April 2016

02.04.2025 15:37 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People think we spend all our time doing that - good for you for carving out just a little bit of the day!

26.03.2025 22:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am not surprised that you are standing strong!

24.03.2025 18:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thinking of you @stwajda.bsky.social

24.03.2025 18:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Cover of Karin Wulf’s book Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America

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

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

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...

20.03.2025 16:14 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

15.03.2025 18:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

15.03.2025 15:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

15.03.2025 00:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh my -me too!!

12.03.2025 03:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

07.03.2025 18:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Posing before “The Triumph of Avarice” nice 😀

26.01.2025 02:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Welcome to Bluesky, @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social!

24.01.2025 16:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thoreauvian

24.01.2025 13:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Book cover with the title “Jane Eyre” over a chromolithograph portrait of a white woman with upswept red hair and red lips

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

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...

24.01.2025 03:51 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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.”

17.01.2025 15:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You’ll never top this one!

15.01.2025 13:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

15.01.2025 00:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh my - fantastic!

10.01.2025 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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YES 🪴

25.11.2024 19:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

24.11.2024 03:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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.

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.

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)

19.11.2024 01:22 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

18.11.2024 22:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Too late…

17.11.2024 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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