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The Faraway Near: Pip Williams
60 Cathedral Square, Christchurch
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An essential session for those who love words: all of us, right? Inspired by the discovery that many words omitted from the original Oxford English Dictionary concerned women’s lives, Pip Williams took to the archives to learn more. The result? Her novel The Dictionary of Lost Words, wherein young Esme gathers all the words literally discarded from the OED process to fashion her own compendium: one that offers an alternative history of the English language. In conversation from Adelaide with Nicky Pellegrino.
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