Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/2491to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dictionary People Author: Sarah Ogilvie Narrator: Joan Walker, Sarah Ogilvie Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins Release date: 10-17-23 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 24 ratings Genres: Art & Literature Publisher's Summary: The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind’s greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vicar who was later found dead in the cupboard of his chapel, an inventor of the first American subway, a female anti-slavery activist in Philadelphia . . . and thousands of others.

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