Charles Edward Mudie

October 18, 1818 – October 28, 1890

Founder of Mudie's Lending Library and Mudie’s Subscription Library, was the son of a second-hand bookseller and newsagent. In 1840 he established a stationery and book-selling business in Bloomsbury. He was the first publisher of James Russell Lowell's poems in England, and of Emerson's Man Thinking

Member of the London School Board, elected for Westminster 1870.

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