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The surgeon of Crowthorne - Simon Winchester
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The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.

About the author (1999)

Simon Winchester has written works based on his travels through Africa, India and Hong Kong, including The River at the Center of the World (1996), about his trip along the Yangtze River. He has also written The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and served as the Asia-Pacific editor for Conde Nast Traveler. He lives in Massachusetts and in the Western Isles of Scotland.

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TitleThe surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
AuthorSimon Winchester
Editionreprint
PublisherPenguin, 1999
ISBN0140271287, 9780140271287
Length207 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Encyclopedias and dictionaries
English language
English language - Etymology
English language - Lexicography - History - 19th century
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Lexicographers
Lexicographers - Great Britain
Minor, William Chester
Murray, James Augustus Henry
Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915
New English dictionary on historical principles
Oxford English dictionary
Psychiatric hospital patients
Psychiatric hospital patients - Great Britain
United States
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Veterans
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