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Author:

Williams, Philippa, 1969- author.

Title:

The dictionary of lost words / Pip Williams.

Publisher:

Affirm Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

423 pages : portrait ; 24 cm

Subject:

Oxford English dictionary--Fiction.
Oxford English dictionary.
Lexicographers--Fiction.
Women--Suffrage--Fiction.
Women--Language--Fiction.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Oxford--Oxford--History--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--20th century--Fiction.
Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Oxford (England)--Fiction.
Lexicographes--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Femmes--Suffrage--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Femmes--Langage--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Grande-Bretagne--Histoire--20e siècle--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Grande-Bretagne--Mœurs et coutumes--20e siècle--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Australian fiction.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Lexicographers.
Manners and customs.
Women--Language.
Women--Suffrage.
England--Oxford.
Great Britain.
1900-1999
Australian fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

"In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the 'Scriptorium', a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word 'bondmaid' flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world. Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women's experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words."--Publisher

ISBN:

1925972593
9781925972597

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1129099405

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)