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	Top Literature - Belle da Costa Greene
		Belle da Costa Greene (December 13, 1883 - May 10, 1950) was the librarian to J.
		Her mother was Genevieve Ida Fleet, a member of a well-known African American family in the nation's capital, while her father was Richard Theodore Greener, an attorney who served as dean of the Howard Law School and was the first fl student and first fl graduate of Harvard (class of 1870).
		Her mother changed her maiden name to Van Vliet, apparently in an effort to assume Dutch ancestry, while Belle dropped her middle name in favor of da Costa and began claiming a Portuguese background to explain her dusky complexion.
	encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=Belle_da_Costa_Greene (567 words)

	An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey From Prejudice to Privilege - Heidi Ardizzone - Books - Review - ...
		Indeed, “Belle could not have achieved the social and professional prominence she did at the turn of the 20th century had she been completely open about her background.” Her name itself was a canny disguise: da Costa added to connote “a fictitious Portuguese ancestry,” and Greene a shortened version of her real surname, Greener.
		(“Greene,” Ardizzone explains in one of the book’s many tiresome formulations, “is very close to Greener.”) This modification was designed to distance Belle from her father, Richard Greener, renowned as “the first fl graduate of Harvard College” and “the first colored librarian and professor at the University of South Carolina.” Although “Belle probably developed...
		Greene destroyed most of her papers before she died, and the author consulted thousands of sources for “clues to Belle’s social life and experiences.” But despite the thoroughness of Ardizzone’s research, her repetitive prose often prevents her from telling Greene’s story in an engaging way.
	www.nytimes.com /2007/07/22/books/review/Weber-t.html?ex=1342756800&en=b2435551093ebd4d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (970 words)

	brookline blogsmith: New Title Tuesday!
		Belle Greene was an African-American woman born in the late nineteenth century.
		She then created and curated for him one of the most renowned private collections of rare books and manuscripts in the world (which you can see now that the Morgan is a public museum).
		Greene was also quite a saucy lady, with flirtations a plenty and an ongoing love affair with a married man. I think I probably would have skipped right over this book if I hadn't already been familiar with her.
	brooklinebooksmith.blogspot.com /2007/05/new-title-tuesday.html (316 words)

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	Belle da Costa Greene Biography and Summary
		She continued to serve in that position to the end of Morgan's life in 1913 and remained as librarian under his son J. Morgan J...
		Belle da Costa Greene(December 13, 1883- May 10, 1950) Librarian to J. Morgan and after his death she became the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
		She was born Belle Marion Greener in Alexandria, Virginia where she grew up until her pare...
	www.bookrags.com /Belle_da_Costa_Greene (151 words)

	Powell's Books - An Illuminated Life: Belle Da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizzone
		When J. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905 to organize his rare book and manuscript collection, she had only her personality and a few years of experience to recommend her.
		Greene is pure fascination--the buyer of illuminated manuscripts who attracted others to her like moths to a flame.
		Ardizzone explores the secret life of Belle Da Costa Greene, the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who was renowned for her self-made expertise, her acerbic wit, and her flirtatious relationships.
	www.powells.com /biblio/9780393051049 (423 words)

	Collectors, Collections, and Scholarly Culture (ACLS Occasional Paper No. 48): THE COLLECTOR J. PIERPONT MORGAN by Jean ...
		Belle was actually 26 when she started to work for Morgan, not 22, but forty years after the end of the Civil War she had a far more compelling reason than feminine vanity for obscuring the facts of her life.
		Her real name was not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener, and she was the daughter of the first fl man to graduate from Harvard.
		Belle's mother was African-American as well but very light- skinned, and at some point around the turn of the century she and her husband split up.
	www.acls.org /op48-4.htm (2771 words)

	4/21/99 BW Online--J.P. Morgan's Biographer on the Man behind the Robber Baron
		She said her name was Belle da Costa Greene, that her mother was a woman of Portuguese background who had supported the family by giving piano lessons.
		And she was a very flamboyant woman who wore designer dresses to work and who in time had a love affair with art dealer and critic Bernard Berenson.
		She dropped the R from her name, added the da Costa and, as a person of light complexion, passed for white.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/apr1999/nf90421c.htm (1190 words)

	EURweb.com - EUR BOOK REVIEW: An Illuminated Life (by Heidi Ardizzone)
		Belle Marian Greener (1883-1950) was born in Washington, DC to parents who were both fl.
		Changing her name to Belle da Costa Greene, she proceeded to claim to be part Portuguese, as a means of explaining her olive complexion.
		One can only imagine how much more bohemian Belle might have blossomed and indulged her glamorous side, if she didn't have to look over her shoulder constantly, wondering whether her roots might come back to bite her.
	www.eurweb.com /story/eur35284.cfm (630 words)

	Early Leaders and Founders of Art Libraries
		Although Belle da Costa Greene was the first head of the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1905 until her retirement in 1948, an in-depth study of her has been elusive.
		Greene, like her benefactor, J. Pierpont Morgan, burned her personal papers and resisted writing for publication.
		Greene traveled less and died a year after her retirement.
	www.arlisna.org /news/conferences/1997/proceedings/discover.html (1825 words)

	Belle da Costa Greene - Avoo - Ask Us A Question -
		She was born Belle Marion Greener in Alexandria, Virginia where she grew up until her parents separation.
		Her father was a distinguished attorney Richard Theodore Greener who served as dean of the Howard Law School and was the first fl undergraduate at Harvard University graduated in 1870.
		Her mother changed their name adding "da Costa" while claiming a Portuguese background to explain their darker complexion and moved to Princeton, New Jersey.
	www.avoo.com /wiki/Belle_da_Costa_Greene (664 words)

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		Da quanto le è stato dato il primo libro di astrologia all'età di 12 anni, non ha mai smesso di studiare, leggere e di immergersi nei misteri e nelle meraviglie di questa antica arte e scienza.
		Cura (30.03.1972) è stato un ammiratore di astro.com sin dal 2000, quando gli fu consigliato da un amico.
		Appassionata da sempre di astrologia, che ritengo essere un eccezionale strumento di arricchimento interiore, da qualche anno sto approfondendo questa sorprendente materia, troppo spesso denigrata con superficialità, attraverso letture e siti internet italiani e stranieri.
	www.astro.com /people/1trans_i.htm?cid=jt0fileNXk1wM-u988142453 (3850 words)

	Belle da Costa Greene « colombianflowers
		Having great knowledge and passion for illuminated manuscripts and incunabula, Greene became a woman to be recon with in the world of rare manuscripts, books and art, while working at the Morgan Library.
		On the personal side, Belle da Costa Greene was the child of Genevieve Ida Fleet and Richard Theodore Greener, an attorney who serves as the Howard Law School, and who was the first African American students and graduate at Harvard.
		Growing up at a time when race greatly limited her opportunities, Greene eventually changed her last name and adopted “da Costa” as her middle name, using it to create a fictional Portuguese ancestry that would explain her complexion.
	colombianflowers.wordpress.com /2007/07/24/belle-da-costa-greene (340 words)

	Belle of the Books - TIME
		Thus, scarcely out of her teens, "quaking with fear and shaking like an aspen," Belle da Costa Greene began her career as head of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
		Belle Greene had spent 43 years (and almost as many millions) collecting items like those, and old Pierpont and his heirs relied on her judgment entirely.
		But mostly Belle's days were spent in her library, bustling in brocade along the corridors ("Where the hell's The City of God?"), rustling among the Rembrandt etchings or answering letters from scholars and collectors all over the world.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,800100,00.html (667 words)

	Amazon.com: An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege: Books: Heidi Ardizzone
		The incredible opportunity was one more reason for Greene to continue the fiction of her exotic background with a Portuguese grandmother and conceal her true racial heritage as African American.
		Her lineage was quite remarkable—her father was the first fl man to graduate from Harvard—but Greene understood the limitations that fl blood presented and took full advantage of her appearance, intelligence, vivacity, and drive to create a dazzling life among the wealthy.
		Greene socialized with the rich and famous and conducted affairs with well-placed men, including art critic Bernard Berenson.
	www.amazon.com /Illuminated-Life-Greenes-Prejudice-Privilege/dp/0393051048 (543 words)

	New Statesman - Will to power
		Strouse's coup is the story of Belle da Costa Greene, the chic, exotic woman who ran Morgan's library.
		She passed herself off as partly Portuguese, but that was fictional: she was the daughter of Richard Greene, the first fl Harvard graduate and, after he abandoned his family, she was brought up to deny her racial background.
		Although she was not one of Morgan's many mistresses, he was extremely possessive of her, and she doted on him, regularly smuggling in manuscripts from Europe for his library.
	www.newstatesman.com /199907260050 (866 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / J. P. Morgan’s Accomplice
		Greene was not your stereotypical librarian, to put it mildly.
		When Morgan died in 1913, he left Belle Greene fifty thousand dollars in his will, enough capital for her to live on modestly.
		At that time she was earning a salary of ten thousand dollars a year at the library, a huge sum, especially for a woman, in those days.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1999/5/1999_5_22.shtml (1620 words)

	Hroswitha Club Library & Archives, 1944-200X
		Allan Marquand, Miss Belle da Costa Greene, Miss Henrietta C. Bartlett, Miss Ruth Grannis, and Mrs.
		The important activity of visiting collections, public and private, was always maintained by the organization and members were often accorded the courtesy of opening any case for closer examination of the exhibited items.
		During a meeting at the Morgan Library, curator (and fellow Hrowsithian) Belle da Costa Greene informed the group that they had the full freedom to enter the vaults and examine the treasures at will.
	www.grolierclub.org /LibraryAMC.HroswithaClub.htm (2443 words)

	Librarian in charge - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
		Enter Belle da Costa Greene, a young woman in her early 20s, working at Princeton University Library, where she had developed a passion for rare books and pre-15th century illuminated manuscripts.
		His son, John ("Jack") Pierpont Morgan Jr., retained Belle as librarian, and it was thanks to her that the soul of the "Morgan Treasures" was saved and the institution was transformed from a private into a public one.
		By day, Belle catalogued art works and transcended her lack of formal education by attending lectures, grilling scholars, and studying Italian, German and French.
	washingtontimes.com /article/20070826/BOOKS/108260006/1010 (437 words)

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