The dictionary of lost words : a novel

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The dictionary of lost words : a novel
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Pip Williams
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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
Dewey number
823/.92
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maps
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR6123.I55269
LC item number
D53 2021
Literary form
fiction
Target audience
adult

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