The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A tale of murder, madness and the love of words. By Simon Winchester

MacMahon, Michael K. C.

doi:10.1075/hl.25.3.18mac

Review published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 25:3 (1998) ► pp.439–441

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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A tale of murder, madness and the love of words. By Simon Winchester

Reviewed by

Michael K. C. MacMahon | University of Glasgow

Published online: 1 January 1998

https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.25.3.18mac

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Murray, K[atharine] M[aud] Elisabeth. 1977. Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary. New Haven & London: Yale Univ. Press. (Reprinted by Oxford Univ. Press in 1979, and by Yale Univ. Press in 1995.)