Skip to main content
Open global navigation
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
Academic
Cambridge Core
(Institutional access)
Books Catalogue
(Individuals)
Cambridge Language Learning
Education
Bibles
Digital Products
About Us
Governance
Careers
Rights & Permissions
Conference Venues
Contact Us
Careers
Contact Us
Orlando
Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
User account menu
Log in
Toggle menu
Main navigation
Home
About
Browse
Explore
Exhibit
Tag Search
About the Tags
Search
Submit
Breadcrumb
Home
Organizations
Philological Society
Philological Society
Connections
No connections available.
Timeline
Sort by
Date
5 November 1857: At a meeting of the London Philological Society,...
Writing climate item
5 November 1857
At a meeting of the
London
Philological Society
,
James Chenevix Trench
(son of the poet and diarist
Melesina Trench
) proposed the compilation of what eventually became the
Oxford English Dictionary
.
View reference
Winchester, Simon.
The Meaning of Everything
. Oxford University Press, 2003.
39
Texts
No bibliographical results available.