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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
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The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams
- Language
- Released
- 2021
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- (Hardcover),
- Book condition
- Damaged
- Price
- €13.45
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Pip Williams
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN10
- 1784743860
- ISBN13
- 9781784743864
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Language Textbooks & Dictionaries, Humor, Love, Family, Friendship, Language Dictionaries, Gifts for women, Realistic Fiction, Society, England, Feminism, Dictionaries, About Books, Based on True Events, Emancipation, Oxford, Suffragettes
- First published
- 2020
- Original title
- The Dictionary of Lost Words
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- 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