#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Our online events can be watched through your BWF ticketing account, and will be available for viewing from 5pm, Friday May 7 to 5pm, Friday June 4.
In 1901, a young girl takes up a secret fight to give women’s words their rightful place in the English language. Esme saves words discarded by the male lexicographers creating the first Oxford English Dictionary to start her own: The Dictionary of Lost Words. Presented in collaboration with ABC Radio National’s, The Bookshelf.
#Artist
Pip Williams
Pip Williams is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho. Her work has won multiple literary awards, been adapted to stage, optioned for screen and translated into more than 30 languages. Her latest novel is a moving story about art, love and desire.
