In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium " a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford […]
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 04:53AM on April 8, 2020