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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
Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1886), dedicated to “Belle. from Uncle Edward December 25/91.” csherbook.hypotheses.org/2267 #abookforchristmas #bookhistory #herbook #womenshistory
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
December 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Any ideas what "Flopy" (?) might be short for? #bookhistory #skystorians
December 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"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
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 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
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 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
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 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
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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
#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
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
Indeed! Plate XLVII by Marion Satterlee in the 1921 edition of How to know the wild flowers.
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 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
October 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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
#illustration by Alice Josephine Smith, from Plants and their children (1896) by Frances Theodora Parsons. #botany #womenartists
October 13, 2025 at 2:13 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
October 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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
#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
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
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
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
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
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