Christine Jacobson

Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts @houghtonlib @harvardlibrary | @cejacobson.bsky.social

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

it turns out women really just want one thing and that thing is finding other women with whom to visit literary house museums

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

@svershbow Clooney!

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

@IoannaP_Author @secondshelfbks not sure which you are referring to but all the books and manuscripts in this thread are part of the collections at Houghton Library

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

& for #InternationalWomensDay let me share some #newacqs with you!

First, drink up the beauty of Truzhenitsa Vostoka (“Working women of the East”), 24 educational pamphlets published by the Soviet Ministry of Health’s Department featuring women from the USSR's diverse regions.

[Christopher Spaide @cspaide]

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

https://t.co/p1ZGbaTEaN

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

@jjoque

[Stephanie Burt (Taylor's Version) 🥥✨ @accommodatingly]

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.

[Molly Brown @msmollyebrown]

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! https://t.co/rTIOB3Lt7H

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

@book_historia I really miss the hootin and hollerin too

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

@abbie_weil it's a stellar outfit but I know what you mean because I have been here countless of times

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

@blgtylr this dude is such A Type in Slavic departments across the country. (the type who tells you he prefers Pevear and Volokhonsky over Garnett.)

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

@ambernoelle

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@VanessaBraganza instantly

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

@liber_ray this is Important Work

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

@jennyschuessler so glad you were on this beat and would love to hear your impressions of Medora! I’m planning to go out when the library opens.

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

an fyi to those who were concerned about Elizabeth Wurtzel’s papers—they arrived at Harvard today!

[Molly Brown @msmollyebrown]

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.

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

@seeshespeak what!

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

when Jane Austen writes letters to her sister the same way your mother talks to you on the phone

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

@Bibliiahraf I don’t have one but I commissioned Andy English to make one for my father for this 60th birthday. It looks like this:

[Christine Jacobson @internetstine]

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