Book Club: The Dictionary of Lost Words
Schedule
Mon, 21 Nov, 2022 at 07:15 pm
Location
The New Deal Creative Arts Center | Hyde Park, NY
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Join us for our monthly book club! This club is open to the community and all are welcome to attend - join us if you read the book, part of the book or none of the book! This book club is free and there is no commitment. Join us in our new home at 4408 Albany Post Road or online via zoom:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87071981047
NOVEMBER'S PICK
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
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. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world.
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Where is it happening?
The New Deal Creative Arts Center, 960 Violet Ave Suite D, Hyde Park, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
