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The volunteer readers had been paid nothing at all for their efforts, though the most prolific sent in thousands of quotations. The story of a single of them, a Broadmoor patient referred to as William Minor, was told in a 2019 film starring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn, The Professor and the Madman – adapted from a book by Simon Winchester. (One editor laments that the film is “full of myths”.) For women who had been literate but prevented from looking for paid employment, the volunteer reading programme presented an approved-of occupation. The Oxford English Dictionary has served as a...