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The Resource The dictionary of lost words : a novel, Pip Williams
The dictionary of lost words : a novel, Pip Williams
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The item The dictionary of lost words : a novel, Pip Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 12 library branches.
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The item The dictionary of lost words : a novel, Pip Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 12 library branches.
- Summary
- Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the <U+2018>Scriptorium<U+2019>, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme<U+2019>s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word <U+2018>bondmaid<U+2019> flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case 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<U+2019>s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words. Set when the women<U+2019>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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 376 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593160190
- Label
- The dictionary of lost words : a novel
- Title
- The dictionary of lost words
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Pip Williams
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the <U+2018>Scriptorium<U+2019>, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme<U+2019>s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word <U+2018>bondmaid<U+2019> flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case 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<U+2019>s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words. Set when the women<U+2019>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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Pip
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6123.I55269
- LC item number
- D53 2021
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Lexicographers
- Women
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Great Britain
- Oxford (England)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The dictionary of lost words : a novel, Pip Williams
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 376 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593160190
- Lccn
- 2020019157
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
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- on1242943637
- (OCoLC)1242943637
- Label
- The dictionary of lost words : a novel, Pip Williams
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 376 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593160190
- Lccn
- 2020019157
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
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- on1242943637
- (OCoLC)1242943637
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