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The dictionary of lost words / Pip Williams.

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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
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