CrowdsourceHerBook
@crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social
CrowdsourceHerBook is a research project about women's history, old books, and participatory science based at the University of Southern Denmark.
Project blog: https://csherbook.hypotheses.org/
Posts by Charlotte Epple
MSCA-DN AntCom, funded by the EU
Project blog: https://csherbook.hypotheses.org/
Posts by Charlotte Epple
MSCA-DN AntCom, funded by the EU
And finally, this endearing children's book about a kitten that decided to leave home and become a robber. It belonged to Nellie Woodford. Nellie was raised by her aunt Sophia after her mother Sarah Comfort's death. #bookhistory #herbook #womenshistory csherbook.hypotheses.org/2176
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
And finally, this endearing children's book about a kitten that decided to leave home and become a robber. It belonged to Nellie Woodford. Nellie was raised by her aunt Sophia after her mother Sarah Comfort's death. #bookhistory #herbook #womenshistory csherbook.hypotheses.org/2176
This book of psalms belonged to Adaline Woodford (left), who later gifted it to her sister Sophia (right). They were sisters-in-law of Sarah Comfort Woodford, the owner of Famous Men of Britain. #bookhistory #womenshistory #herbook
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This book of psalms belonged to Adaline Woodford (left), who later gifted it to her sister Sophia (right). They were sisters-in-law of Sarah Comfort Woodford, the owner of Famous Men of Britain. #bookhistory #womenshistory #herbook
I've been sent four books all owned by women in the same family. With photos! Here's the first: Famous Men of Britain (1856), inscribed by Sarah Comfort Woodford. csherbook.hypotheses.org/2447 #bookhistory #womenshistory #herbook
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I've been sent four books all owned by women in the same family. With photos! Here's the first: Famous Men of Britain (1856), inscribed by Sarah Comfort Woodford. csherbook.hypotheses.org/2447 #bookhistory #womenshistory #herbook
This is the author of the book, John Oliver Hobbes, aka Pearl Mary Teresa Richards. #bookhistory #womenshistory #literature
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is the author of the book, John Oliver Hobbes, aka Pearl Mary Teresa Richards. #bookhistory #womenshistory #literature
#onthisday in 1896, Estelle Champlin added this copy of The Herb-Moon to her library. The scraps of paper on the pastedown are from a review of the novel, probably pasted into the book by the book seller and later removed. csherbook.hypotheses.org/2160 #bookhistory #womenshistory #herbook #otd
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
#onthisday in 1896, Estelle Champlin added this copy of The Herb-Moon to her library. The scraps of paper on the pastedown are from a review of the novel, probably pasted into the book by the book seller and later removed. csherbook.hypotheses.org/2160 #bookhistory #womenshistory #herbook #otd
Here's another prize book, this time awarded for "good attendance" to Minnie Brownsett from Manchester. csherbook.hypotheses.org/2393 #herbook #bookhistory #womenshistory
October 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Here's another prize book, this time awarded for "good attendance" to Minnie Brownsett from Manchester. csherbook.hypotheses.org/2393 #herbook #bookhistory #womenshistory
Indeed! Plate XLVII by Marion Satterlee in the 1921 edition of How to know the wild flowers.
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Indeed! Plate XLVII by Marion Satterlee in the 1921 edition of How to know the wild flowers.
I love the audacity of reinterpreting a typographic separator as a signature line. And right underneath the apostle's name! csherbook.hypotheses.org/1958 #bookhistory #womenshistory #herbook
October 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I love the audacity of reinterpreting a typographic separator as a signature line. And right underneath the apostle's name! csherbook.hypotheses.org/1958 #bookhistory #womenshistory #herbook
More #ferns! Signed "A. J. S." (Alice Josephine Smith). From How to know the ferns (1899) by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #womenartists #illustration
October 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
More #ferns! Signed "A. J. S." (Alice Josephine Smith). From How to know the ferns (1899) by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #womenartists #illustration
#illustration by Alice Josephine Smith, from Plants and their children (1896) by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #womenartists
October 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#illustration by Alice Josephine Smith, from Plants and their children (1896) by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #womenartists
Ostrich Fern by Marion Satterlee (her monogram is under the stalk of b) from How to know the ferns (1899) by Frances Theodora Parsons. #illustration #womenartists #botany
October 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ostrich Fern by Marion Satterlee (her monogram is under the stalk of b) from How to know the ferns (1899) by Frances Theodora Parsons. #illustration #womenartists #botany
Pyxie by Elsie Louise Shaw, colour plate in the 1921 edition of How to know the wild flowers by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #illustration #womenartists
October 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Pyxie by Elsie Louise Shaw, colour plate in the 1921 edition of How to know the wild flowers by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #illustration #womenartists
#Illustration of seed pods by Alice Josephine Smith, from Frances Theodora Parsons, Plants and their Children (1896). #botany #womenartists
October 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
#Illustration of seed pods by Alice Josephine Smith, from Frances Theodora Parsons, Plants and their Children (1896). #botany #womenartists
Frontispiece of How to know the ferns (1899) by Frances Theodora Parsons, titled “The cheerful community of the polypody.” Photograph by Miss Madeline Smith. #womenartists #botany #photography
October 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Frontispiece of How to know the ferns (1899) by Frances Theodora Parsons, titled “The cheerful community of the polypody.” Photograph by Miss Madeline Smith. #womenartists #botany #photography
Cloth cover designed by Margaret Armstrong, for How to know the ferns (1899) by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #illustration #womenartists
October 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Cloth cover designed by Margaret Armstrong, for How to know the ferns (1899) by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #illustration #womenartists
Pink Ladies' Slipper by Elsie Louise Shaw, frontispiece of the 1921 edition of How to know the wild flowers by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #illustration #womenartists
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Pink Ladies' Slipper by Elsie Louise Shaw, frontispiece of the 1921 edition of How to know the wild flowers by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #illustration #womenartists
Rose Mallow by Marion Satterlee. From Frances Theodora Parsons, How to know the wild flowers (1895). #illustration #botany #womenartists
October 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Rose Mallow by Marion Satterlee. From Frances Theodora Parsons, How to know the wild flowers (1895). #illustration #botany #womenartists
Secondhand bookshop find: a wonderful warning verse from Jane Brower, who owned this reader sometime in the 19th century. csherbook.hypotheses.org/1905 #bookhistory #womenshistory #herbook #crowdsourcing
October 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Secondhand bookshop find: a wonderful warning verse from Jane Brower, who owned this reader sometime in the 19th century. csherbook.hypotheses.org/1905 #bookhistory #womenshistory #herbook #crowdsourcing
To illustrate, some lines from the poem About Husbands. (Appreciated or not at the time, ladies certainly did learn Greek and Latin) #bookhistory #womenshistory #classics
October 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
To illustrate, some lines from the poem About Husbands. (Appreciated or not at the time, ladies certainly did learn Greek and Latin) #bookhistory #womenshistory #classics
Struggling to figure out what's before "Pauline" in this inscription. Ideas? #bookhistory #skystorians
August 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Struggling to figure out what's before "Pauline" in this inscription. Ideas? #bookhistory #skystorians
August 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fancy book gear! From an 1880s advert for the Methodist Book Depository in San Francisco. #bookhistory
August 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Fancy book gear! From an 1880s advert for the Methodist Book Depository in San Francisco. #bookhistory
Same book. Same guy? #bookhistory #classics
August 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Same book. Same guy? #bookhistory #classics
What's this? A teacher opening a can of beans? Lots of fun pupils' doodles in this 1855 Herodotus, which I got to see last week. #bookhistory #classics
August 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What's this? A teacher opening a can of beans? Lots of fun pupils' doodles in this 1855 Herodotus, which I got to see last week. #bookhistory #classics
Really cool! I love these prize labels. I saw one for a Grace Bridges in a charity shop a while ago, for "excellent Conduct + Progress", dated 1914.
July 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Really cool! I love these prize labels. I saw one for a Grace Bridges in a charity shop a while ago, for "excellent Conduct + Progress", dated 1914.