Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts @houghtonlib @harvardlibrary | @cejacobson.bsky.social
Cambridge, MA
Joined June 2011
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it turns out women really just want one thing and that thing is finding other women with whom to visit literary house museums – at Cambridge, MA
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Helen Hennessy Vendler (1933–2024)
no reader, no critic, no teacher has meant more to me. her inexhaustible work is our common bounty; getting to know her was my inconceivably good luck
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Helen Vendler was the most important "adult" (ie generation above me) in my life besides my literal parents. Intellectually & personally. I'll try to say more when I can. Please go read what she had to say about teaching and about the poets she loved. Words Chosen Out of Desire.
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Couldn’t make it to The Persephone Festival, but want to hear @internetstine and my session “Working Women in ‘The Home-Maker’” where we talk about domestic feminism, archives, and do dramatic readings? Listen here for free for one month only! m.mixcloud.com/Persephoneboo…
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Last night @internetstine & I held the final meeting of our @BeaconHillBook literary roundtable of @PersephoneBooks on working women. We discussed labor rights, motherhood, department stores, and read fabulous paragraphs out loud. Some generous participants even did the voices.
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This @trufelman podcast on the past and future of wearing hair, and the historical burdens that go with it, is perfect. It's rare to get 360 views of big issues in short form, and she does it again and again--mostly by making it not about herself. articlesofinterest.substack.…
free-of-charge but highly specific idea:
if you happened to collect books on fashion, how great would this illustration be for your ex libris
there are days when living in Boston can feel tough—the weather is crummy, it’s hard to make new friends, or you feel fomo from nyc goings on.
yesterday, a day spent at the Boston Athenaeum, the MFA, and a Say She She show at The Sinclair with @msmollyebrown, was not one of them – at Newton, MA
I will also say that having post-lecture oysters with the wonderful Avery @trufelman earlier in the week and Steve Buscemi swinging by our table to say hi on his way out reminded me this town can be full of surprises – at Newton, MA
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A dreamy morning at the Boston Athenæum, gathering with @internetstine & our @BeaconHillBook @PersephoneBooks roundtable to view items from the collections to elicit the worlds of fashion & women’s work in Dorothy Whipple’s High Wages and Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s The Home-Maker.
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Coat “Byzanthium”, by Fong Leng, 1976. Leather, snakeskin, suede, satin. Pink brocade lining.
Credit: Amsterdam Museum
Given by Carel and Mathilde Willink
reeling from this daguerreotype of an "Editor" in the @BibSocAmer newsletter today
ALT young man in jaunty hat at table with lots of papers strewn about and pipe sticking out of his mouth, with miserable look, staring straight at the camera
It will be heading to the Tate next year so UK dwellers are in luck! – at Newton, MA
How wonderful it would be to see the Fashioned by Sargent exhibition now open @mfaboston . Garments alongside portraits enhance both mediums, the object and image. Here the 1890 painting La Carmencita alongside the costume itself from a private collection @MuseeOrsay
really looking forward to this! and I paged our Clueless screenplay today for an upcoming class -- all the stars are aligned 💫
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My author’s copy of the exhibition catalogue Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800 arrived and I’m so excited! I co-wrote an essay on tapestries and woven and embroidered textiles. The show opens at @artbma on Sunday. Can’t wait to see it in November!
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The secret is out!
.@maclehosepress has signed a crime series by Ukrainian author @AKurkov - translated by @BorisDralyuk, The Silver Bone opens in Kyiv in 1919
bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
