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The Dictionary of Lost Words - Paperback
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The Dictionary of Lost Words Contributor(s):Ā Williams, PipĀ (Author) |
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Binding:Ā Paperback
Pub Date:Ā May 03, 2022
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very firstĀ Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esmeās place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the wordĀ bondmaidĀ flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means āslave girl,ā begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men.
As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to womenās and common folksā experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages.
Set during the height of the womenās suffrage movement and with the Great War looming,Ā The Dictionary of Lost WordsĀ reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of theĀ Oxford English DictionaryĀ to tell this highly original story.Ā The Dictionary of Lost WordsĀ is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world.
As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to womenās and common folksā experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages.
Set during the height of the womenās suffrage movement and with the Great War looming,Ā The Dictionary of Lost WordsĀ reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of theĀ Oxford English DictionaryĀ to tell this highly original story.Ā The Dictionary of Lost WordsĀ is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world.
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The Dictionary of Lost Words Contributor(s):Ā Williams, PipĀ (Author) |
Ā
Binding:Ā Paperback
Pub Date:Ā May 03, 2022
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very firstĀ Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esmeās place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the wordĀ bondmaidĀ flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means āslave girl,ā begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men.
As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to womenās and common folksā experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages.
Set during the height of the womenās suffrage movement and with the Great War looming,Ā The Dictionary of Lost WordsĀ reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of theĀ Oxford English DictionaryĀ to tell this highly original story.Ā The Dictionary of Lost WordsĀ is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world.
As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to womenās and common folksā experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages.
Set during the height of the womenās suffrage movement and with the Great War looming,Ā The Dictionary of Lost WordsĀ reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of theĀ Oxford English DictionaryĀ to tell this highly original story.Ā The Dictionary of Lost WordsĀ is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world.
