Charles Edward Mudie | |
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 Mudie by Frederick Waddy (1872) | |
| Born | 18 October 1818 Chelsea, London, England |
| Died | 28 October 1890 (aged 72) |
| Occupation(s) | Publisher, book seller, lending library proprietor |
Charles Edward Mudie (18 October 1818 – 28 October 1890), English publisher and founder of Mudie's Lending Library and Mudie's Subscription Library, was the son of a second-hand bookseller and newsagent. Mudie's efficient distribution system and vast supply of texts revolutionized the circulating library movement, while his "select" library influenced Victorian middle-class values and the structure of the three-volume novel. He was also the first publisher of James Russell Lowell's poems in England, and of Emerson's Man Thinking.[1]