The Dictionary of Lost Words The Dictionary of Lost Words

The Dictionary of Lost Words

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Publisher Description

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 seizes the word and hides it in an old wooden trunk that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world.

Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and 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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
31 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
384
Pages
PUBLISHER
Affirm Press
SELLER
Hachette Australia Pty Ltd
SIZE
11.1
MB

Customer Reviews

JLWJHP ,

Loved it

Hard to put down. Pulled on all the heart strings. I could definitely read this again.

wendles readings ,

Recommend a must read for all

Fabulous interesting read based on such important events and courage for womens equal rights movement.

Bug145:) ,

The Dictionary of Lost Words

A beautifully written book giving a compelling and moving account of hidden lives that are truely extraordinary.

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