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The dictionary of lost words

Williams, Pip, 1969- (author.).

In this remarkable debut novel based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decides to collect the "objectionable" words they omit.

Book  - 2021
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Subject
Lexicographers > Fiction.
Oxford English dictionary > Fiction.
Women > Suffrage > Fiction.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries > England > Oxford > History > Fiction.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Oxford (England) > Fiction.
Genre
Biographical fiction.
Novels.
  • ISBN: 9780593160190
  • ISBN: 0593160193
  • ISBN: 9781984820747
  • Physical Description xiv, 376 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
  • Publisher New York : Ballantine Books, [2021]

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General Note:
"Originally published in Australia by Affirm Press in 2020."--Title page verso.