The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams

Category: Historical Fiction, Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Edwardian Oxford English Dictionary Women's Suffrage

Written by Pip Williams
Read by Imogen Sage
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

The Dictionary of Lost Words
By: Pip Williams
Narrated by: Imogen Sage
Release date
07-05-2020
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
12 hrs and 42 mins
Publisher
Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Categories
Literature & Fiction

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.

Please note: based on listener feedback, we have updated the audio with corrected pronunciations.

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