{"product_id":"the-dictionary-of-lost-words-by-pip-williams-paperback-2021","title":"The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Paperback, 2021)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dictionary of Lost Words\u003c\/strong\u003e by \u003cstrong\u003ePip Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEsme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters 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 house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women’s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet when the women’s suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. It’s a delightful, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words, and the power of language to shape the world and our experience of it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePip was born in London, grew up in Sydney and now calls the Adelaide Hills home. She is co-author of the book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Bomb: Work Rest and Play in Australia Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (New South Press, 2012) and in 2017 she wrote \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Italian Summer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a memoir of her family’s travels in search of the good life, which was published with Affirm Press to wide acclaim. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e she combines her talent for historical research with beautiful storytelling. She has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary and found a tale of missing words and the lives of women lived between the lines.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: \u003c\/strong\u003ePaperback | 384 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"label\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions (cm):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e19.8 x 12.9 x 3.1\u003c\/span\u003e | 398g\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Affirm Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication City\/Country:\u003c\/strong\u003e South Melbourne, Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/strong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1922400270\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9781922400277\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor damage to the cover including a crease running down the left-hand side of the front cover, and a minor crease on the bottom-left corner of the back cover, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verse \u0026 Prose","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57207234330790,"sku":"004135","price":9.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/0827\/6646\/files\/TheDictionaryofLostWordsbyPipWilliams.jpg?v=1693996875","url":"https:\/\/verseandprose.com.au\/products\/the-dictionary-of-lost-words-by-pip-williams-paperback-2021","provider":"Verse \u0026 Prose ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}