The Dictionary of Lost Words
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Meat
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Anti-suffragist political cartoons
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Is someone tortured?
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The force feeding of suffragettes is discussed as torture
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Not intentionally: see the entry about hands being damaged
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does a kid die?
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Teenagers too young to enlist do so anyway and die
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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No described sex scenes though
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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The protagonist has lifelong burn scars on her hands
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Is someone burned alive?
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The protagonist has burn scars on her fingers from trying to grab something in a fire as a child. Another character gets a burn injury later on in the book
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Does a non-human character die?
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In war
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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There is, however, discussion of suffragettes going on hunger strikes
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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The protagonist has an unexpected pregnancy and gives the baby away to a couple because she can’t raise the baby. I wouldn’t call this abandonment, but I don’t know how others feel
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Tuberculosis
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Does someone drown?
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A character dies of tuberculosis, which essentially means her lungs filled with fluid and she drowned
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does a parent die?
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The protagonist’s mother died before the events of the book
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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A character becomes nonverbal after developing PTSD from trench warfare. He is triggered by the word “bomb,” and someone says this word over and over again to harm him
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Are any hands damaged?
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The protagonist has lifelong burn scars on her hands
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Is someone hit by a car?
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The protagonist is killed by being hit by a truck
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Are there abortions?
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Protagonist becomes pregnant and visits someone intending to have an abortion but is too far along so she continues to have the baby.
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Does someone have a stroke?
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The protagonist’s father dies of a stroke
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The protagonist begins volunteering at a hospital during WWI
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Mention of a character falling off a mountain
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Does someone spit?
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A man spits on the protagonist for being involved with the suffrage movement
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Is religion discussed?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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The protagonist becomes depressed after being sent away to boarding school
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Much of the book involves the protagonist documenting the words of poor women, many of which are vulgar
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Is there incarceration?
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Incarceration is discussed, particularly suffragettes being imprisoned for their activism. There is also repetition of the slogan “women, no more rights than a convict,” which takes for granted that convicts don’t deserve rights
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Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Priceless, no, but the protagonist, as a child, carelessly damages someone else’s hat pin
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Is there menstruation?
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Protagonist experiences her first period and struggles to initially adjust to absorbant dressings
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