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Illuminated Life: Belle Da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege
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Hardcover
from W W Norton & Co Inc (June 4, 2007)
9780393051049 | details & prices | 352 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 1.75 in. | 2.25 lbs | List price $35.00
About: Examines the secret life of Belle de Costa Greene, who was responsible for shaping the Pierpont Morgan Library collection and who became a luminary in New York high society, describing how the daughter of free people of color invented a Portuguese grandmother to enter white society to take the art world by storm.
About: Examines the secret life of Belle de Costa Greene, who was responsible for shaping the Pierpont Morgan Library collection and who became a luminary in New York high society, describing how the daughter of free people of color invented a Portuguese grandmother to enter white society to take the art world by storm.