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 unclaime
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Pip Williams' acclaimed novel The Dictionary of Lost Words explores the making of the first Oxford English Dictionary. For ABC Radio National's Big Weekend of Books, Pip took questions from members of the ABC Book Club, and spoke about her research in England, how her background as a social scientist helps her writing, and the mystery of the word 'bondmaid'. | ABC Arts
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The Dictionary of Lost Words is an absorbing book that incorporates lexicography, dictionaries and books with the story of a girl growing up in Edwardian England. Pip Williams talks briefly about her novel, and you can find it on our website here: https://www.readings.com.au/products/31637401/the-dictionary-of-lost-words | Readings
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