An illuminated life : Belle da Costa Greene's journey from prejudice to privilege

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Title:

An illuminated life : Belle da Costa Greene's journey from prejudice to privilege

Author:

Ardizzone, Heidi.

Personal Author:

Ardizzone, Heidi.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : W. W. Norton & Co., [2007]

Physical Description:

580 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

Raised expectations -- Gilded dreams in New York -- Princeton : early influences -- Belle Greene, girl librarian -- A turn in the road -- The whirl in which I live -- Bella Italia -- Hiding in the light -- A modern woman -- Crossroads -- Battlefields -- Lady directress -- A woman of a certain age -- Shining through the darkness.

Personal Subject:

Greene, Belle da Costa.

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959-Friends and associates.

Corporate Subject:

Pierpont Morgan Library -- History.

Subject Term:

African American librarians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.

Women library administrators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.

Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.

Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies.

Geographic Term: