ABSTRACT

Source: Mr Mudie’s Monopoly’, Literary Gazette (29 September 1860), article and selected subsequent correspondence. [Original article, 29 September; letter from Mudie to the Athenaeum, 6 October; letter from ‘Z’, 6 October; letter from Fair Play, 20 October; letter from ‘Senex’, 27 October; ‘Mudie’s Library’, Saturday Review, 3 November; letters from Saunders, Otley and A Second-Rate Author, 17 November; letter from Charles J. Skeet, 24 November].