#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.
#Artists
Kate Evans
Kate Evans hosts The Bookshelf on ABC Radio National (with Cassie McCullagh). She has a PhD in history and way too many books, and regrets neither.
Pip Williams
Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney, and now lives in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia with her family and an assortment of animals. She has spent most of her working life as a social researcher, studying what keeps us well and what helps us thrive, and she is the author of One Italian Summer, a memoir of her family's travels in search of the good life, which was published by Affirm Press to wide acclaim. Her first novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words, based on her original research in the Oxford English Dictionary archives, was published in 2020 and became an international bestseller. The Bookbinder of Jericho is her second novel, a companion to The Dictionary of Lost Words, and again combines her talent for historical research and beautiful storytelling.
