MUDIE,+Charles+Edward

MUDIE, Charles Edward (1816-1890) 1CL Mudie's Commercial Library 1842-1890 Mudie, a bookseller, built up a great Victorian institution. It lost its all-but-unique reputation during the 20th century due, //inter alia//, to powerful commercial competition and to the developing public library movement. Mudie's finally closed in 1937. G L Griest //Mudie's circulating library and the Victorian novel// (1970).