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The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of Words and the power of language to shape the world..
Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story.
Set during the height of the women\'s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a Lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men.
To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose Words will fill those pages.
And so she begins in earnest to search out Words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words.
As she grows up, Esme realizes that Words and meanings relating to women\'s and common folks\' experiences often go unrecorded.
She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means slave girl, begins to collect other Words that have been discarded or neglected by the Dictionary men.
One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table.
Young Esme\'s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard.
Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting Words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.-- The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD - A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.--Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. . .
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