Record Number |
850394 |
ISBN |
9780369343000 |
Author |
Williams, Pip, 1969- author. |
Title |
The dictionary of lost words / Pip Williams. |
Edition |
Large print edition. |
Publisher/Date |
[Strawberry Hills, NSW] : Read How You Want, [2020]. |
©2020. |
Pagination etc. |
579 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Read how you want |
Contents note |
Set in 16 point Verdana. |
Copyright page from the original book. |
Summary Note |
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip containing the word bondmaid flutter to the floor unclaimed. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others – that words and meanings relating to women’s experiences often go unrecorded. She begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words. |
Subject |
http://Oxford English dictionary |
-- Fiction |
Large print books |
Australian fiction |
Women -- Language -- Fiction |
Dictionaries -- England -- Oxford -- History -- Fiction |
Women -- Suffrage -- Fiction |
Lexicographers -- Fiction |
England -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction |
England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction |
Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction |
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction |
Historical fiction. |
Large type books |
Shelf Location |
LP WILL |