The Women's Print History Project

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Your go-to bibliographical database for finding books that women were involved in producing between 1750 and 1836. Posts by Serena Spacek, Kandice Sharren, and Amanda Law.

An open book showing botanical illustrations on the left and a title page on the right, titled "An Introduction to Botany" by Priscilla Wakefield.
An open book showing botanical illustrations on the left and a title page on the right, titled "An Introduction to Botany" by Priscilla Wakefield.
Illustration of a woman in 18th-century attire outside a library, alongside event details for The Women's Print History Project celebration
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.
Illustration of the Moon against a deep blue background with text at the top reading "PLENILVNIUM. pinxit ad Archetypum M.C.Eimmart a Norimb.
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.
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.
An engraving of a woman and two girls with scientific instruments in the background.
An engraved image of classical profile portraits of Elizabeth Montagu on the left and Anna Letitia Barbauld on the right surrounded by allegorical figures seated on clouds, with engraved text at the bottom.
Page from a book with a diagram labeled "fig. 96" showing geometric lines and points representing the sun, moon, and Earth.
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."
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.
A title page with ten lines of black printed text on a white background
Thirteen lines of black cursive script on beige paper background
Side profile portrait of Phillis Wheatley Peters, sitting at a desk with quill in hand, paper and book in front of her.
Two women stand and smile in an office with a desk, laptop, open books, papers, and a computer with a screen displaying data.
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."
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.
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.
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
Title page of The Happy Family; or, Winter Evenings' Employment. Consisting of Reading and Conversations, in seven parts
Title page of Rachel Revel’s Winter Evening Pastimes; or, the Merry-Makers Companion
Title page of Isabella Jane Towers’s The Children's Fire-side: Being a Series of Tales for Winter Evenings
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.
Collage of five book title pages.
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 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 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.