Joseph Emerson Worcester

Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784–1865) was an American lexicographer and chief competitor of Webster's Dictionary in the mid-nineteenth-century.

Works

• A Geographical Dictionary, or Universal Gazetteer, Ancient and Modern (1817, enlarged 1823)
• A Gazetteer of the United States (1818)
• Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1819)
• Sketches of the Earth and its Inhabitants (1823)
• Elements of History, Ancient and Modern, accompanied by an Historical Atlas (1826)
• Epitome of History (reissue of above, 1827)
• Outlines of Scripture Geography (1828)
• Johnson's Dictionary, as improved by Todd and abridged by Chalmers, with Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary combined, to which is added Walker's Key (1828)
• A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language with Pronouncing Vocabularies (1830)
• A Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language (1846)
• A Gross Literary Fraud exposed; relating to the Publication of Worcester's Dictionary in London: Together with Three Appendixes; Including the Answer of S. Converse to an Attack on him by Messrs. G. & C. Merriam (1854)
• A Dictionary of the English Language (1860)
• An Elementary Dictionary for the Common Schools with Pronouncing Vovabularies of Classical Scripture and Modern Geographical Names
• An Elementary Dictionary of the English Language
• A Primary Dictionary of the English Language