Book Discussion - The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

Join us on February 14 at 1:00 p.m. as we discuss The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. In this remarkable 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. Esme 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. As she grows up, she 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.

Our discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Anna Katsavos.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 and ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program.

Please reserve your copy at the Reference Desk or by phone.

The eBook version of The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for The Dictionary of Lost Words.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 1236.