Christine Jacobson

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

@svershbow Clooney!

Crowdsourcing: men who stan their uber-talented and famous wife or girlfriend HARD. So far, I have Travis Kelce, Doug Emhoff, and Alex Ohanian. Who are the others?

@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

@internetstine @secondshelfbks Hiya, sorry to jump on this so long since you posted it. Do you still have this book?

& 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.

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 bostonglobe.com/2024/04/23/met…

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.

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/Persephonebook…

@book_historia I really miss the hootin and hollerin too

God I miss book history Twitter so much 😭 I’m mildly inebriated and watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and want to hoot n holler about the 12thish century illuminated manuscript on PAPER, but my squad is mostly gone from the platform now :(

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

I say this with all the self-love in the world: I put together this little outfit thinking it would make me look like Joan Holloway but instead it makes me look like Peggy when she doesn’t know she’s pregnant

@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.)

@VanessaBraganza instantly

Anyone recognize the handwriting, #AcademicTwitter ? 👀

@liber_ray this is Important Work

@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.

The $333 million Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library is rising in a tiny town in the North Dakota badlands. Wait… what? My story from Medora, pop. 125 My first North Dakota dateline, w cameos by elk, Mr. Bubble & an excellent N.D. Hot Beef sandwich nytimes.com/2023/10/27/art…

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

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.

@seeshespeak what!

Good morning from Rudyard Kipling’s house, Naulakha, where I am staying for the next few days, and where lilacs are mysteriously blooming in late October.

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

@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:

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