CrowdsourceHerBook

Books of Duchesses collects, organizes, and presents data related to late-medieval laywomen and their books. Through an interactive map of Europe, users are able to visualize networks of manuscripts, texts, and readers and explore the libraries and peregrinations of woman book owners. #siteoftheweek

What a wonderful read, thank you for this, Brian! Do remember that you can always send photos of women-owned books my way on here.

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#4 Frances Fenton Cawthorne’s Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty on several parts of England, 1788 This book was generously shared by an anonymous participant. Type of ownership mark: inscriptionTranscription: “Frances Fenton Cawthorne” Bibliographic dataTitle: Observations, relative chiefly to pic...

Today's #herbook used to belong to an Englishwoman named Frances Fenton Cawthorne (1759-1839). Kindly shared by an anonymous participant. #crowdsourcing #bookhistory #womenshistory #nature

Reposting some favourites for #internationalwomensday!

#rosesagainstviolence. #StopptdieGewaltanFrauenundMädchen
zum Wahltag in BW.
Mit #Hohenstaufen im Hintergrund
#ParitätimParlament
Lieber #gleichberechtigt als später!

Plakat zur Ausschreibung des 10. Sommerkurses für Handschriftenkultur an der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (23.–29. August 2026) zum Thema „Mittelalterliche Handschriften verstehen lernen“.

Plakat zur Ausschreibung des 10. Sommerkurses für Handschriftenkultur an der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (23.–29. August 2026) zum Thema „Mittelalterliche Handschriften verstehen lernen“.

📣 #CfA: 10. #Sommerkurs für Handschriftenkultur vom 23. bis 29. August 2026 an der @ubleipzig.bsky.social: „Mittelalterliche Handschriften verstehen lernen“. Ausschreibung 👉 www.ub.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/Re... #medievalsky

18th century book frontispiece with a single elaborately penned word "Book" with a flourish and a decorative bow swirled underneath.

Just because I saw and loved this last week.

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>.

The Whitman Archive has lots of letters between Ford and the author, for example this one (link in alt text). Great book find!

Very worn cover of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Inscription reads Isabella O. Ford 23rd October 1882

Title page: Leaves of Grass, Rees Welsh & Co, 1882

@crowdsourceherbook.bsky.social So just stumbled upon your project. I have an 1882 edition of Leaves of Grass that appears to have belonged to Isabella O. Ford. Been trying to figure out if this really should be part of a collection and not just sitting on my shelf away from the kids.

Isabella Ford - Wikipedia

Very cool, thanks for pointing it out! *this* Isabella O. Ford? It's definitely worth tracking down an example of her signature to compare it. As for giving it to a collection - libraries tend to be quite selective when accepting (relatively) recent books, but who knows!

It's St David's Cathedral in Wales actually... :)

The survey is now closed! Reflections, Bonus Books, and Thank You’s Since launching the project on 8 March 2025, readers of this blog have sent me a lot of books with fascinating contents and object biographies. It has been a joy to look through all the submissions an...

The year is coming to an end, and so is this crowdsourcing experiment. A massive thank you to everyone who got in touch! Read about the process and what's next here: csherbook.hypotheses.org/3221 #bookhistory #womenshistory

Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1886), dedicated to “Belle. from Uncle Edward December 25/91.” csherbook.hypotheses.org/2267 #abookforchristmas #bookhistory #herbook #womenshistory

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