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Francesca Wade: The Best-Paid Woman in NYC, 26 June 2025
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy
edited by Erica Ciallela and Philip S. Palmer.
DelMonico, 304 pp., £44.99, December 2024,978 1 63681 135 2 Show More
edited by Erica Ciallela and Philip S. Palmer.
DelMonico, 304 pp., £44.99, December 2024,
Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters
by Deborah Parker.
Harvard, 170 pp., £20.95, October 2024,978 0 674 29981 8 Show More
by Deborah Parker.
Harvard, 170 pp., £20.95, October 2024,
“... Belle da Costa Greene, a study of the letters (which prints several of the juiciest in full), Deborah Parker suggests that in the letters to Berenson we come closest to an expression of her private life, though she was still careful to let him know that her confessions might be cloaked in a protective veneer: ‘My real life I live to myself – and ... ”