Chicago Daily Tribune

While the image of Belle Greene reaching for books is a fictional construction, the photograph of her in this article derives from one of the Theodore Marceau images (Belle da Costa Greene (seated)). Belle Greene overhead two men discussing a magazine reproduction of this article in 1914 and was disgusted by their conversation and the publicity about her.

BG to BB, 1/5/14 (371; likely reference to a reprint of this article in Form magazine): "It does make me sick – this damned newspaper publicity The other day sitting outside of the dining room for coffee at the Ritz, was a man with an open magazine in his hand – He was seated next to me, but not in our party – and I paid no attention to him naturally, nor should have, had I not heard him say to a man with him – “Morgan said she was the cleverest woman he ever met – I don’t think she’s much on looks do you? – Well I naturally pulled up my ears and turned to see the magazine & of whom he was gossiping when lo and behold my own portrait stared straight at me – I was furious! It was a thing called Form which I never heard of in my whole life before. It's really too disgusting to be discussed in the foyer of an hotel just as if one were an actorine."