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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: https://csherbook.hypotheses.org/ Posts by Charlotte Epple MSCA-DN AntCom, funded by the EU

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · May 20

Tell me about your woman-owned books! Submit them via the survey below.
✔️ printed before 1900
✔️ contains evidence of female ownership (a signature e.g.)
#bookhistory
#crowdsourcing
#womenshistory

Get involved!

If you are interested in contributing to the project by sharing your books, please feel free to email the editor, Charlotte Epple, at cepple[at]sdu.dk. You can contribute by filling in the Crowdsource...

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 21m

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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#Illustration of seed pods by Alice Josephine Smith, from Frances Theodora Parsons, Plants and their Children (1896). #botany #womenartists

CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 1h

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

CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

Over the coming days, I'll be sharing pictures from Parsons' books, all of which are freely available online in the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social

Parsons, Frances Theodora, - Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

This exciting book, passed down the female line, is a remarkable witness of women in #botany around 1900. For her botany guides, author Frances Theodora Parsons worked with several women artists - illustrators, photographers, and a binding designer. #herbook #bookhistory

#24 Fannie’s How to Know the Wild Flowers (1895)

This book was kindly shared by Chris Kraus. Type of ownership mark #1: inscriptionTranscription: “To Fannie from Mother in memory of Bessie AnEaster Gift Apr 10- 1898” Type of ownership mark #2: bookp...

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 1d

wow. the algae are incredible!

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Helen Spurrell translated the Old Testament from Hebrew into English in 1885. She learnt the language later in life, stating that translating “almost entirely occupied her time for many years past”. She signed this copy of her work for someone unknown. #bookhistory #womenshistory #herbook

#23 Mrs Spurrell’s Translation of the Old Testament Scriptures

This book was kindly shared by Stephen Ricketts. Type of ownership mark #1: inscriptionTranscription #1: “With Mrs Spurrell’s compliments” Type of ownership mark #2: Library shelfmark?Transcription #2...

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 1d

Danke für's drüber nachdenken!

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

"Miss Berry – from her friend Mr E." - Saxe's The Masquerade and other poems (1866) is certainly an... interesting choice of gift. #bookhistory #womenshistory #herbook

#21 Vanny Berry’s The Masquerade and Other Poems, 1866

This book was kindly shared by Patrick Schlichtenmyer. Type of ownership mark #1: inscriptionTranscription: “Miss Berry – from her friend Mr E.” Type of ownership mark #2: inscriptionTranscription: “V...

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CrowdsourceHerBook @crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social · 24d

Something special to mark the 20th contribution on the blog: the oldest book crowdsourced so far! Thanks to an anonymous participant, here's a wonderful print from 1638, with an inscription from 1660. #herbook #bookhistory #crowdsourcing #womenshistory