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The dictionary of lost words / Pip Williams.

The dictionary of lost words / Pip Williams.
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Adult Fiction   Bankstown . . On Loan, Reserved . 23 Apr 2024
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Adult Fiction   Chester Hill . . On Loan, Reserved . 13 Apr 2024
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ISBN 9781922400277
Name Williams, Pip author.
Title The dictionary of lost words / Pip Williams.
Published South Melbourne, Victoria : Affirm Press, 2020.
©2020.
Description 423 pages :1 illustration ; 20 cm.
Notes Includes: Timeline of major historical events featured in the novel.
Summary 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. Set when the women’s suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men.
Subjects Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English dictionary -- Fiction
Oxford English dictionary -- Fiction
Oxford English dictionary -- Fiction
Oxford English Dictionary
New English dictionary on historical principles -- Fiction
Subject 1900-1999
Subjects Australian fiction
Bookclub collection
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Lexicographers
Manners and customs
Women -- Language
Women -- Suffrage
Lexicographers -- Fiction
Women -- Suffrage -- Fiction
Women -- Language -- Fiction
Dictionaries -- England -- Oxford -- History -- Fiction
Reading -- Fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
England -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
England
England -- Oxford
Great Britain
Oxford (England) -- Fiction
England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genre Historical fiction
Historical fiction
Historical fiction
History
Fiction
Historical fiction
Reservations Queue 3
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