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CHARLES EDWARD MUDIE (1818—189o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 955 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:EDWARD See also:MUDIE (1818—189o)  , See also:English publisher and founder of See also:Mudie's Lending Library, was See also:born at See also:Chelsea on the 18th of See also:October 1818, the son of a secondhand bookseller and newsagent . In 184o he established a See also:stationery and See also:book-selling business in Bloomsbury, See also:London . He was the first publisher of See also:James See also:Russell See also:Lowell's poems in See also:England, and of See also:Emerson's See also:Man Thinking . In 1842 he began to lend books . This See also:department proved so successful that in 1852 he moved his " Select Library " to larger premises in New See also:Oxford See also:Street, London . In 186o these premises were substantially enlarged, and branches of the business established, and in 1864 " Mudie's was converted into a limited See also:company . Mudie himself died on the 28th of October 189o .

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