The dictionary of lost words : a novel / Pip Williams.
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TextPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2020Edition: Large print editionDescription: 647 pages (large print) : map ; 22 cmContent type: cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9798885789707Subject(s): Lexicographers -- Fiction | Sexism in language -- Fiction | Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction | Women -- Suffrage -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. | Historical fiction.Summary: Esme, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. Learning that the word means 'slave girl,' begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realises that words and meanings relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded. So she begins 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.
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Esme, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. Learning that the word means 'slave girl,' begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realises that words and meanings relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded. So she begins 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.
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