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The dictionary of lost words : a novel

Williams, Pip 1969- (author.).

Summary: "Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and ever curious, she spends her childhood in Oxford in the room where her father and fellow lexicographers are collecting words for the first complete edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. While they work, young Esme begins to collect other words, ones that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And 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 vocabulary will fill those pages. Set in the early twentieth century during the height of the woman’s suffrage movement, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a missing narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men."--

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  • ISBN: 9781984820747 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 388 pages : map ; 21 cm
    regular print
    print
  • Edition: Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2022.
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Subject: Oxford English dictionary -- Oxford English dictionary -- Fiction
Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- England -- Oxford -- History -- Fiction
Lexicographers -- Fiction
Women -- Language -- Fiction
Women -- Suffrage -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Oxford (England) -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.

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