Library
Title:
Thomas Minor's wandering leads to Stonington
Author:
Carol W. Kiimball
Subjects:
Simon Winchester's new book
"madman" William Minor
Thomas Minor and his Stonington arrival
William Minor and the first Oxford English Dictionary
Object ID:
Kim07-065a
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
06/17/1999
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
Simon Winchester's new book, "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary," (Harper Collins 1998) might be accurate about William Minor's contributions to the Dictionary from a British prison for the criminally insane but it is not accurate about his ancestry nor his wanderings to Stonington.
People:
Winchester, Simor
Minor, William
Minor, Thomas
Minor, Eastman
Minor, Lucy
Winthrop, John, Jr.
Minor, Manasseh
Chesebrough, William
Palmer, Walter
Search Terms:
Stonington
Sri Lanka
British prison for criminally insane
Oxford English Dictionary
Winchester's book
Wequetequock Cove
Quiambaug