The Grand Dutchess of dictionaries has met her demise.

photo by Emon Hassan

Adler sent this over. She sounds like a very interesting person. My kind of gal. A collector of dictionaries.

Madeline Kripke - dead of covid-19 virus. The empress of etymology has embarked into eschatology.

I realized that dictionaries were each infinitely explorable so they opened me to new possibilities in a mix of serendipity, discovery and revelation. Madeline Kripke

The Times article led me to this Narratively website, which looks really good too.