The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

Pip Williams
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Paperback, Published in 2020
443 pages
Affirm Press
Used condition

A historical fiction novel following Esme Nicoll, who grows up in the "Scriptorium" where the first Oxford English Dictionary is compiled. She discovers that words relating to women’s experiences, lower-class lives, and specific emotions are often discarded by male lexicographers, leading her to collect these "lost words" to create her own dictionary