Title The surgeon of Crowthorne : a tale of murder, madness and the love of words / Simon Winchester

Published London : Viking, 1998

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MELB	423.092 Minor Win/Soc		AVAILABLE

Description 207 pages 4 unnumbered pages of plates. : portraits ; 21 cm Summary "One of the keenest volunteers in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a W C Minor. His refusal to go to Oxford to receive his congratulations led to the editor going to meet him in Berkshire, where he found that Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder." - product description Notes U.K. edition. Published in the U.S. as: The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Minor, William Chester, 1835-1920 Minor, William Chester. Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915 -- Friends and associates. SUBJECT Oxford English dictionary. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85201132 Subject Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism. English language -- Etymology. English language -- Lexicography. Dangerously mentally ill -- Biography. Violent offenders -- Biography. Mentally ill offenders -- Biography. Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography. Criminally insane Mentally ill offenders -- Biography. Murderers -- Biography. Mentally ill offenders. Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography. SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140205 -- Veterans http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006447 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237 Genre/Form Biographies. Author Winchester, Simon. Professor and the madman. ISBN 0670878626 9780670878628

Other Titles Professor and the madman

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