Women's Work and Women's Words in the Novels of Pip Williams
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In this episode, I'm chatting with Pip Williams, author of two novels featured in the Literature category on Art In Fiction: The Dictionary of Lost Words andThe Bookbinder.
Highlights include:
The Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford University Press as inspiration for both novels
Finding treasure in the archives of Oxford University Press
Inspiration for The Bookbinder and an examination of women's work before and during World War I
The role class plays in both novels
Women and the vote in 1918: working-class women were not included
Finding information about the lives of…
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