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Mudie|ˈmjuːdɪ|
The name of Charles Edward Mudie (1810-90) used absol., attrib., or in the possessive to designate the lending library opened by him in London in 1842, which continued in business until 1937; or labels, lists, boxes, etc., associated with the library or its contents.
1859H. C. Robinson Diary 26 May (1967) 300, I subscribed to Mudie's Library, as I have long intended. Ibid. 30 May (1967) 300, I went to Mudie's for the poems of Macdonald. 1864Mrs. Gaskell French Life i, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 439/2 They have nothing equivalent to ‘Mudie’ in Paris. 1879C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum III. xxxii. 675 ‘It is the advantage of having no Mudie boxes,’ said his mother. ‘We are taking up our Southey.’ 1885― Nuttie's Father I. xvi. 191 She could only have recourse to Mudie's box to try to drive dull care away. 1888Bks. for Presents & Prizes: Catal. Bks. Best Authors (Mudie's Select Library) Aug. 1 A few Choice Books in Mudie Calf, Extra Morocco, and other Superior Bindings are also kept in Stock. 1890S. Butler in Universal Rev. VIII. 518, I believe I have the smallest library of any literary man in London... I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudie's. 1908Mrs. H. Ward Diana Mallory i. vi. 113 The Book-Club..embraced some ten families who drew up their Mudie lists in common, and sent the books from house to house. 1922H. S. Walpole Cathedral i. ii. 28 He looked at them all, with their light yellow Mudie labels, their fresh bindings. 1931‘G. Trevor’ Murder at School ii. 44 He..said you had written a novel... I must get Mudie's to send it down with their next batch. 1966Berry & Poole Ann. Printing 230/2 ‘Mudie's Lending Library’..was to become world famous... As the watch⁓dog of contemporary literary morals, Mudie soon became a ruthless dictator as to what the people should read... ‘What will Mudie say?’ became the proverbial question when new fiction was under consideration in publishers' offices. 1970G. L. Griest (title) Mudie's Circulating Library and the Victorian novel. |