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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Curated by Denise Oleksijczuk, SFU SCA associate professor, and Salena Wiener, WPHP RA and SFU English PhD student, Earth Love: Intended Chiefly for Young Persons is an exhibit that explores women and children's engagement with botany and the garden, historically and into the present.

An open book showing botanical illustrations on the left and a title page on the right, titled "An Introduction to Botany" by Priscilla Wakefield.

Display of books and watercolor paintings in the "Special Collections & Rare Books Exhibit."

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Join us on Thursday, May 28th (1-5 PM) at SFU Bennett Library for talks, workshops, & a reception in celebration of the WPHP's 10th anniversary! For more details and to RSVP, see the Eventbrite link: tinyurl.com/3yvucc7s.

Illustration of a woman in 18th-century attire outside a library, alongside event details for The Women's Print History Project celebration

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Please join us to celebrate the WPHP on May 29th (2-5 PM) at SFU Harbour Centre. We will be holding a live podcast, roundtable, & talk by Dr. Kate Ozment, followed by a reception. For more details and to RSVP, see our Eventbrite page: tinyurl.com/5n7vfd67. We can't wait to see you there!

A banner with invitation text on the left side and a portrait of a woman with short blonde hair and a bright pink jacket on the right side.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

As the WPHP prepares to launch its own mission to explore the range of surviving literary manuscripts by women in the Women’s Manuscript History Project, please enjoy these journal entries from Dorothy Wordsworth’s Alfoxden and Grasmere journals, all from within the same week in January 1798: (1/9)

Illustration of the Moon against a deep blue background with text at the top reading "PLENILVNIUM. pinxit ad Archetypum M.C.Eimmart a Norimb.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Women poets of the long eighteenth-century took so much inspiration from the moon. Here is our attempt at a brief poetic lunar miscellany: (1/8)

Frontispiece to Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets. Black and white engraving of a woman in a white gown stands in a moonlit forest, looking upwards at the moon, with an owl perched above her on a book.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Fancy some astronomical play? Alicia Mant’s The Study of the Heavens at Midnight During the Winter Solstice, Arranged as a Game of Astronomy, for the Use of Young Students in that Science (1814) represents one of many attempts by women writers to turn scientific learning into fun and games. (1/3)

A 19th century star chart titled "A New Game of Astronomy or the Young Student's Guide to a View of the Heavens at Midnight at the Winter Solstice" showing constellations and celestial lines.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“The figure of the Moon’s orbit is nearly that of an ellipse; but, owing to the varieties of her affections, and their inequalities amongst themselves, not a regular one.” (1/5)

An engraving of a woman and two girls with scientific instruments in the background.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"...the skies... ...with mild maiden beams Of temper’d light, invite the cherish’d eye To wander o’er their sphere; where hung aloft DIAN’s bright crescent, like a silver bow New strung in heaven, lifts high its beamy horns Impatient for the night, and seems to push Her brother down the sky." (1/5)

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"The heavens afford the most sublime subject of study which can be derived from science: the magnitude and splendour of the objects...impress the mind with some notion of the energy that maintains them in their motions with a durability to which we can see no limits” (vi). (1/4)

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Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Required reading for #bookhistory and “fembib. Collaboration, mentorship, “data intimacy” and research.

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Kandice @kandicedarcia.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Being sincere in public sets off my fight-or-flight response, but adding my favourite meme of all time to the social media posts helps.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

For our final spotlight in the Research in Reflection series, join PI Michelle Levy and Lead Editor Kandice Sharren as they muse on 10 years of the WPHP—their regrets, their accomplishments, and how they have tried to keep the humans involved at the forefront of of the project: tinyurl.com/23ajexte

A classic meme: Hugh Laurie's head on top of a giant manatee that is crashing into an air station. The caption reads, "OH, THE HUGH MANATEE."

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

In Kate’s contribution to our “Research in Reflection Series” she reflects on how the WPHP (delightfully, inevitably) shaped her her PhD work—and provided her with the opportunity to drop books in the British Library. Oops. Read about her ongoing love story with the WPHP here: tinyurl.com/5k55cpxm

A woman pushes a the book cart of shame, laden with old books, through the Rare Books and Manuscripts reading room at the British Library.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Continuing our "Research in Reflection Spotlight Series," RA Belle Eist details how following a rabbit hole into Jane Loudon's life informed both her MA project and her WPHP work: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/150.

A title page with ten lines of black printed text on a white background

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

In our next installment of the "Research in Reflection Spotlight Series, join RA Salena Wiener as she recounts how the WPHP helped shape her PhD research on women's labour in the production of manuscripts: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/149.

Thirteen lines of black cursive script on beige paper background

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

First up, in "Reflections of a Research Assistant: The Multitudes of WPHP Work," Amanda Law discusses the several roles she took on as an RA for the project, and the special place Phillis Wheatley Peters and her book of poetry hold in her memories: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/146.

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Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I had forgotten quite how long I’ve been doing #fembib #bookhistory till this lovely podcast opportunity with @thewphp.bsky.social .

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

In the penultimate (!!) episode of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, we’re joined by three scholars whose work has been vital to our research—Isobel Grundy, @lesliehowsam.bsky.social, and Maureen Bell. Listen here: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/147 (1/3)

A graphic in the style of a nineteenth century title page that reads: "The WPHP Monthly Mercury No. 5.5 FINDING, BUILDING, SUSTAINING, SUPPORTING feat. Isobel Grundy, Leslie Howsam, Maureen Bell | VANCOUVER: Hosted by Moffatt & Sharren, Vancouver and Saskatoon 2025." Pencil annotations note the names "Kate & Kandice) and the date "Aug. 13."

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Kandice @kandicedarcia.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Come for the witch trials, stay for the informative chapter about Newcastle architecture.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This month’s episode of the WPHP Monthly Mercury features research by recent PhD graduate Tricia Monsour, who completed a scholarly edition of Jane Harvey’s The Castle of Tynemouth. We never can resist a bonkers novel—and we hope you can’t either: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/145

A graphic formatted like an eighteenth century title page that reads:
The WPHP Monthly Mercury No 5.4
A Newcastle Novelist
feat. Tricia Monsour
Vancouver:
Hosted by Moffatt & Sharren, [pencil annotation: Kate & Kandice] Vancouver and Saskatoon
[pencil annotation: Feb. 19th] 2025.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Happy 2025 and ten year anniversary of the WPHP! To find out what we've been up to in the lead up to this milestone (and to see a throwback photo of Lead Editor Kandice and Project Director Michelle in 2015), take a look at our 2024 Year in Review: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/144.

Seven people sitting around a table in a restaurant, smiling at the camera. Books and food are on the table. Bright interior with tall windows and yellow accents.

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Megan Peiser @meganpeiser.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Oh hey it’s me. Check it out.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

For S5E3 of the WPHP Monthly Mercury, join us as we interview @meganpeiser.bsky.social and @embrarian.bsky.social about their work on the Hicks Collection. This episode has it all—a badass woman book collector, a Boston marriage, and even a heist (!!!): womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/143

A graphic formatted like an eighteenth century title page that reads:
The WPHP Monthly Mercury No 5.3
Bibliographic Intimacies
feat.
Megan Peiser &
Emily Spunaugle
Vancouver:
Hosted by Moffatt & Sharren, [pencil annotation: Kate & Kandice]
Vancouver and Saskatoon
[pencil annotation: Dec 11th] 2024

An image of one woman's hand holding another woman's hand with a long green nail, captioned: really holding space for the Marguerite Hicks collection

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Happy December WPHP friends! Are you hosting a holiday gathering this year and looking for some entertainment? Search “winter evening” in our Titles search for some 19th century inspiration: womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/.

Black and white engraving from The Happy Family; or, Winter Evenings' Employment. Consisting of Reading and Conversations, in seven parts of a five people sitting in chairs around a lit fireplace.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

As we continue to verify over 1500 firms on our Firms to Final Check list, you can revisit our Down the Rabbit Hole: Researching Women in the Book Trades Spotlight Series to learn about some of the extensive research we undertake to determine if a firm is woman-run.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Happy Halloween! This year, we’re literally taking a trip to hell with Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya. It’s Kandice’s favourite time of the year, so she sat down with WPHP collaborator Kate Ozment to talk about this demonic, orientalist bloodbath of a novel: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/141

A graphic in the style of a title page that reads: "The WPHP Monthly Mercury No 5.2, Deal with the Devil, Feat. Kate Ozment. // Vancouver: Hosted by Moffatt and Sharren, Vancouver and Saskatoon // 2024." "Kate & Kandice" and "Oct. 30th" is written in pencil next to the imprint and a devil tail is curling over the edge of the page.

A tombstone reads, "Yeet not lest ye be yeeted."

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

To help you savour the last few days of October (and get you ready for another special Halloween episode coming this week!), listen again to our previous WPHP Monthly Mercury Halloween episodes.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Happy spooky season, WPHP friends! To help you get into the Halloween spirit, revisit our Spooky Spotlight series where we dive into all things Gothic in the database: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/38.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Authority records, authority figures, authoritative scholarship… What does it really mean to have authority? The first episode of the final season of the WPHP Monthly Mercury is here to question authority—and maybe claim some in the process. Listen here: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/140

A graphic designed like an 18th Century title page that reads:
The WPHP Monthly Mercury No. 5.1
Authority Issues
Vancouver:
Hosted by Moffatt & Sharren [pencil annotation: Kate & Kandice],
Vancouver and Saskatoon
[pencil annotation: Oct 16th] 2024.

A meme of a blond woman in a pink hoodie looking annoyed with the caption, "I am going to create an authority record that is so wrong."

A screenshot of the WorldCat landing page with the caption "WorldCat" alongside a picture of a very fluffy cat exposing her belly with the caption "Not WorldCat."

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Meet Serena Spacek! Serena has been part of the team since May of 2023—we finally dragged her away from title checking and social media work to answer some questions. Read about her work on Eliza Haywood, her favourite WPHP facts, and her feline friends: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/137

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

Introducing Salena Wiener, one of our diligent RAs, and a dedicated PhD student in English Literature at Simon Fraser University! Learn about how Salena got involved with the WPHP, her research area(s), her debut chapbook, and more: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/136

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Spring is the season of glooming showers 🌧️ and blooming flowers 🌷 —the perfect habitat for greens and plants alike 🌱. Delve into Hannah Woolley’s “The accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, cookery, and gardening … the compleat flowerist with the nature and use of ... (1/4)

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

📣 We're thrilled to announce that the WPHP’s Persons and Firms data are now included into the @CERL_org Thesaurus as authority records! 📖 See all of our data containing a link to the authority record on the WPHP website: data.cerl.org/thesaurus/_s...

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

🌟 Happy #InternationalWomensDay from the WPHP! 🌟 In the spirit of Women’s History Month, we invite you to explore our comprehensive database of women’s contributions to print and publication in the long C18. Here at the WPHP, every month is Women’s History Month!

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

📣 We are thrilled to give a special shoutout to our PI, Dr. Michelle Levy, on the publication of her article “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal” with Duke University Press! 📖👏 read.dukeupress.edu/eighteenth-c...

read.dukeupress.edu

“A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal | Eighteenth-Century Life | Duke University Press

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

💝 Love is in the air, and Valentine’s Day brings the allure of secret admirers—just like the mystery behind some long C18 works, where authors remain anonymous! ✒️ Immerse yourself in the romantic ambiance by exploring our Titles section—simply search keywords like “valentine.” 💌

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

🎙️Exciting News! Our podcast episodes now come with transcriptions! 📜 Our team is working hard to make our content more accessible for everyone by providing comprehensive transcriptions of our podcast episodes.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Summer lovin’ had me a blast, summer lovin’ happened so fast 🎶 Reminiscing about summer romance? Why not check out our ‘Fiction Romance’ Genre (womensprinthistoryproject.com/genre/26) and the works of Ann Radcliffe(womensprinthistoryproject.com/person/603)?

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Kandice @kandicedarcia.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

A festive lil episode in honour of the only holiday I really celebrate. (We're not joking about the brawny thighs.)

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

BOO! Do you believe in ghosts? In our new podcast episode, “Ghosts of Print Culture Past,” we turn to one of the favourite pastimes of the long eighteenth century—reading aloud—to share Mary Tuck’s 1804 tale, “Durstan Castle; or, The Ghost of Eleanora”: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/132

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

We’re thrilled to wrap up our series of interviews from BARS/NASSR 2022 with one with Kirsteen McCue, who talked to us about her Stephen Copley Memorial Lecture, as well as the circulation of song more generally: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/131

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

What better way to enjoy dancing red leaves and a spine-chilling breeze than a spooky podcast? Revisit S2 E5 of The WPHP Monthly Mercury “The Witching Hour” and join Kate and Kandice in discussing all things witchy, with quite the chilling narration! womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/89

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

In the spirit of all things spooky, we’re revisiting our Spooky Spotlight Series! 👻 Featuring authors of gothic titles such as Ann Radcliffe, Ann Lemoine, Elisabeth Guénard and Mary Wollstonecraft—we’re sure this series will send an autumnal chill down your spine.

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

We recorded this week’s bonus episode—our fourth—with @profchander.bsky.social the week before attending the conference, which gave us a sneak peek of the talk he was planning. More information about this bonus episode (and the three previous ones) here: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/131

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The Texas Graham Saw Massacre @grahamofthedead.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

"You boy, what day is this??"

Scrooge, but wearing a hockey mask cos it's friday the 13th.

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Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Tenure track job at Williams in Romantic Lit! Please share. t.co/5IrCvX1HOJ

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The Women's Print History Project @thewphp.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

The third bonus episode of “‘It’s (A)Live!’ The WPHP Monthly Mercury at New Romanticisms,” featuring our conversation with keynote @triciamatthew.bsky.social and @drbeard79.bsky.social is now available: womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/131

A graphic made to imitate an 18th century title page that reads:

IT'S (A)LIVE!
the bonus series
Featuring Patricia Matthew and Andrew McInnes

Vancouver:
Hosted by Moffat & Sharren
Vancouver and Saskatoon
2023.

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