This month we will be discussing: "The Dictionary of Lost Words" by Pip Williams
\n"In 1901\, the word &lsquo\;Bondmaid&rsquo\; was discovered missing from the& nbsp\;Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole i t.
\nEsme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibl y curious\, she spends her childhood in the &lsquo\;Scriptorium&rsquo\;\, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicogra phers are collecting words for the very first \;Oxford English Diction ary. Esme&rsquo\;s place is beneath the sorting table\, unseen and unheard . One day a slip of paper containing the word &lsquo\;bondmaid&rsquo\; flu tters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend\, Lizzie\, a young servant in the big hous e. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are mispla ced\, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help he r make sense of the world.
\nOver time\, Esme realizes that some wor ds are considered more important than others\, and that words and meanings relating to women&rsquo\;s experiences often go unrecorded. While she ded icates her life to the \;Oxford English Dictionary\, secretly\, she be gins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words .
\nSet when the women&rsquo\;s suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed\, \;The Dictionary of Lost Words \;reveal s a lost narrative\, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. It&rsquo\;s a delightful\, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebrati on of words\, and the power of language to shape the world and our experie nce of it."
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