Title: The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Published: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998
Description: xi, 242 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. 239-242
Subject(s):
- Oxford English dictionary
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography
- Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism
- New English dictionary on historical principles
- Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- English language -- Lexicography
- English language -- Etymology
- Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915 -- Friends and associates
- Minor, William Chester
Review(s):
- Sawyer, Michael. "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary." Library Journal 123.n13 (August 1998): 114
- Saxton, Matthew L. "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary." Library Quarterly 70.2 (April 2000): 280
Read: August 1999