The dictionary of lost words [eAudiobook]
Williams, Pip2020
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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 begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others - 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. Set when the women'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.
The dictionary of lost words [eAudiobook] / Pip Williams ; read by Imogen Sage.
Unabridged ed.
[Melbourne, Vic.] : Bolinda audio, 2020.
Downloadable eAudiobook.Fiction.Duration: 12:42:21.
Read by Imogen Sage.
Interest age level: Adult.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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