$16.99
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2020
Summary
In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, 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’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper co…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922400277 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922400270 |
| Author: | Pip Williams |
| Publisher: | Affirm Press |
| Imprint: | Affirm Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 32mm |
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About The Author
Pip Williams
Pip was born in London, grew up in Sydney, and now calls the Adelaide Hills home. She is co-author of the book Time Bomb: Work Rest and Play in Australia Today and in 2017 she wrote One Italian Summer, a memoir of her family’s travels in search of the good life, which was published to wide acclaim. In The Dictionary of Lost Words, she combines her talent for historical research with beautiful storytelling. She has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary and found a tale of missing words and the lives of women lived between the lines.
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