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CrowdsourceHerBook is a research project about women's history, old books, and participatory science based at the University of Southern Denmark. Project blog: csherbook.hypotheses.org Posts by Charlotte Epple MSCA-DN AntCom, funded by the EU

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My colleagues Konstantina Tsakona and Panagiotis Leontaridis from the University of Verona will be presenting the results of their wonderful #participatoryscience project on 29 May! They worked with Italian high school students to transcribe a very damaged palimpsest manuscript. #medievalsky (1/2)
Poster for for the International Seminar Virgilio (invisibile) a Verona, happening on 29 May 2026 at Aula T.8, Palazzo di Lingue (University of Verona) and online. Contact paolo.scattolin@univie.it for more information.Programme for the Virgilio (invisibile) a Verona Workshop.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Whitman Archive has lots of letters between Ford and the author, for example this one (link in alt text). Great book find!
 Ford, Isabella O.. "Isabella O. Ford to Walt Whitman, 12 May 1891." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 January 2026. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1886), dedicated to “Belle. from Uncle Edward December 25/91.” csherbook.hypotheses.org/2267 #abookforchristmas #bookhistory #herbook #womenshistory
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This copy of Fireside Fairies by Susan Pindar (1849) was given to "dear little Julie, From Cousin Alice, Christmas 1854" csherbook.hypotheses.org/2133 #abookforchristmas #bookhistory #womenshistory
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
#bookhistory #herbook
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The book contains a wonderfully detailed birth record, listing the names, dates and exact times of birth for each of the Barnfield children. csherbook.hypotheses.org/2658 #bookhistory
Soffiea Barnfield Born June 9th 1865 10 minutes to six in the morning
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Since the holidays are coming up, here's a Christmas gift! Mary Lewis (m. Barnfield) got this bible on Boxing Day 1859. #herbook #bookhistory #abookforchristmas
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Any ideas what "Flopy" (?) might be short for? #bookhistory #skystorians
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"Heres a true little story of the land – you are going to – For Lulu Bird from – the skipper of the Racing Yawl Themis Feb 14th 1900" #bookhistory #herbook
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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
Portrait of Ellen “Nellie” Sophia Bill (née Woodford) as a young child. Photo supplied by Chris Kraus. Title illustration of The Robber Kitten, showing an adult cat in a hat and a bow tie sitting, and a downtrodden-looking kitten holding a yellow hat. A gun and a stick are lying on the floor between them.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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
Portrait in a little locket showing Adaline Woodford (1815-1857), photograph supplied by Chris Kraus.Portrait of Sophia Ann Woodford (1820-1909). Photograph supplied by Chris Kraus.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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
Portrait of Sarah Eugenie (née Comfort) Woodford. Photograph supplied by Chris Kraus.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This is the author of the book, John Oliver Hobbes, aka Pearl Mary Teresa Richards. #bookhistory #womenshistory #literature
Portrait of John Oliver Hobbes aka Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (November 3, 1867 – August 13, 1906)By George Charles Beresford - Photography from 1902, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21525536
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#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
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Here's another prize book, this time awarded for "good attendance" to Minnie Brownsett from Manchester. csherbook.hypotheses.org/2393 #herbook #bookhistory #womenshistory
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Indeed! Plate XLVII by Marion Satterlee in the 1921 edition of How to know the wild flowers.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
More #ferns! Signed "A. J. S." (Alice Josephine Smith). From How to know the ferns (1899) by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #womenartists #illustration
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
#illustration by Alice Josephine Smith, from Plants and their children (1896) by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #womenartists
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
#Illustration of seed pods by Alice Josephine Smith, from Frances Theodora Parsons, Plants and their Children (1896). #botany #womenartists
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Cloth cover designed by Margaret Armstrong, for How to know the ferns (1899) by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #illustration #womenartists
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Rose Mallow by Marion Satterlee. From Frances Theodora Parsons, How to know the wild flowers (1895). #illustration #botany #womenartists
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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
Screenshot of page 94 of John Godfrey Saxe's poem About Husbands from the collection The Masquerade and other poems (1866)
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Struggling to figure out what's before "Pauline" in this inscription. Ideas? #bookhistory #skystorians
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Some intriguing miscellaneous material in today's #herbook #bookhistory #womenshistory
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Fancy book gear! From an 1880s advert for the Methodist Book Depository in San Francisco. #bookhistory
A man reclining on a chaise longue reading a book held by a Holloway book stand.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Same book. Same guy? #bookhistory #classics
A pupil's doodle of a man with a beard, bow tie, and hat, at the top of a page containing printed Greek text.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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
A pupil's doodle of a man holding a cylindrical object, at the bottom of a page containing printed Greek text.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Another #herbook find from the attic, thanks to Alexander Hammar. csherbook.hypotheses.org/825 #bookhistory
A disorganised pile of decaying books in an attic.Two ownership inscriptions, "Anna Kempe" and "E.O. Bergvall Minkelberget"
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The person who sent me Barbara Jepsen's cookery book also pointed out the postscript, which highlights the emotional labour expected of a woman running a 19th century household. #womenshistory #bookhistory
Postscript of Laurine Jacobsen, Kogebog for store og smaa Huusholdninger, Copenhagen 1851.English translation.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The person who sent me Barbara Jepsen's cookery book also pointed out this photo of her from Alslev sognearkiv. #herbook #bookhistory #womenshistory #genealogy
https://arkiv.dk/vis/4090963
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Whoever sent me this Jane Austen book with the gift incription - thank you! But you forgot to include a picture of the title page, so unfortunately I can't tell what it is. Do get in touch if you're reading this. #bookhistory #crowdsourcing
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Some items found inside a wedding bible from 1899: an embroidered cross and a card with a bible verse bookmarking the story of Susanna. #bookhistory #herbook #bible
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Another charity shop book inscription, just for fun: #onthisday in 1932, Annie Rutherford won this book as first prize in... sack race! #bookhistory #otd
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It's got lots of lovely foldouts! #foldoutfriday #herbook
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
While looking up the Württemberg hymnbook, I came across this colourful full-page ownership inscription by Elisabeth Wölfle in the Stadtmuseum Ebersbach #herbook #bookhistory #womenshistory
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A handdrawn label with a short ephemeral love poem is pasted into yesterday's #herbook. It reads "Liebe knüpft mit süßen Banden/Hier und ewig mich an dich/Unsre treuen Herzen wanden/Rosen und Vergissmeinicht"
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Sneak peek of a #crowdsourcing contribution in the pipeline. A pressed edelweiss flower in a hymn book from 1780. #herbook #bookhistory #womenshistory
A pressed flower inside an 18th century German book of hymns.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The first entry on the blog is out! It's about a travel guide to Italy owned by First Lady of the United States Mary Todd Lincoln. Read it here: csherbook.hypotheses.org/108
Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln by Matthew Brady, circa 1861. Public Domain.
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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
What better day than 8 March to introduce a research project about women's book history and participatory science? Read about CrowdsourceHerBook here: csherbook.hypotheses.org/169 #internationalwomensday #womenshistorymonth #herbook #bookhistory
Interrupted Reading, c. 1870. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875). Public Domain.
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