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A Competent Man: Portrait of an Edwardian Librarian
Raymond WilsonIN JANUARY 1899 an advertisement appeared in the national daily newspapers, including the Manchester Guardian, the Leeds Mercury, the Birmingham Post and the Standard: ‘Wanted a…
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A Choice of Pseudonyms
Tony JosephELIZABETH, Queen of Roumania between 1881 and her death in 1916, was a writer. For many years she turned out verses and stories purely for her own interest and that of her private…
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Le Grand Larousse
Anthony D. CliffordPIERRE‐ATHANASE LAROUSSE is best known as the co‐founder, in 1852, of the publishing house which has produced a wide range of encyclopedias and dictionaries. His greatest work…
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The Story of GK's Weekly
A.E. DayALTHOUGH instances of publishers who have named magazines after themselves are relatively common—Longman's, Macmillan's, and Scribner's are perhaps the best known, along with…
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