The dictionary of lost words : a novel /

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by Williams, Pip,
[ ] Physical details: xiv, 376 pages : illustration ; 25 cm. Subject(s): 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. Item type :
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Montague Regional High School F WIL Available

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

"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."--Dust jacket flap.