Book Club with Samantha: The Dictionary of Lost Words
Wed, Sep 13
|The Mather Homestead
Join Samantha for a discussion of Australian writer Pip William's first novel, "The Dictionary of Lost Words." This novel follows Esme Nicholl, whose father is working on the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. She collects words about women that have been discarded.
Time & Location
Sep 13, 2023, 7:00 PM
The Mather Homestead, 19 Stephen Mather Rd, Darien, CT 06820, USA
About the event
Description of the book:
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first . Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men.Oxford English Dictionarybondmaid
As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and…
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