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  2. Belle da Costa Greene - Wikipedia

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    Belle da Costa Greene (November 26, 1879 – May 10, 1950) was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan's death in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son, Jack Morgan , and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library .

  3. The Personal Librarian - Wikipedia

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    The book, co-written by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, was published June 2021 by Berkley Books. The novel follows Belle da Costa Greene as she receives employment from J. P. Morgan and establishes herself in high society while disguising her true identity as a person of color in the early twentieth century.

  4. Hroswitha Club - Wikipedia

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    They exchanged ideas, carried out research, and organized talks and visits to book collecting institutions both private and public. In 1948 Belle da Costa Greene, one of the few professional women then in the club, organized a visit to the Pierpont Morgan Library, giving group members access to the vault of rare materials. [4]

  5. 24 Must-Read Novels That Are Based on True Stories - AOL

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    Belle da Costa Greene, born Belle Greener, lived much of her remarkable life on the shadowy margins of America's highest echelons, so it’s fitting that her remembrance is also extraordinary.

  6. Bernard Berenson - Wikipedia

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    Bernard Berenson was also involved in a long relationship with Belle da Costa Greene. Samuels (1987) mentions Mary's "reluctant acceptance (at times)" of this relationship. Cole Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, Bernard Berenson, and Howard Sturges in a gondola, 1923

  7. Morgan Library & Museum - Wikipedia

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    Morgan acquired two hundred cases of books, which were temporarily stored in the Lenox Library and moved to Morgan's personal library starting in December 1905. [72] Around the same time, Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene as his personal librarian.

  8. Heather Terrell - Wikipedia

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    The Personal Librarian, co-authored by Victoria Christopher Murray and published in 2021 by Berkley Books, is a fictionalized biography of Belle da Costa Greene's life as the personal librarian to J. P. Morgan and the first director of the Morgan Library & Museum.

  9. Breton Gospel Book (British Library, MS Egerton 609)

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    Wilhelm Koehler, ‘The Fragments of an Eighth-Century Gospel Book in the Morgan Library (M. 564)', in Studies in Art and Literature for Belle da Costa Greene, ed. by Dorothy Miner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954), pp. 238-65 (p. 256, as ‘E’).