TY  - JOUR
AB  - In his preface to Everyman's encyclopaedia the editor traces the ancestry of such compendia “back via Knight's Encyclopaedia to the great Penny Cyclopaedia published between 1833 and 1843 at the instigation of Lord Brougham by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, a body which did much in its day to further the education of ordinary men and women”. It's a good idea to brush up one's sense of this social background by re‐reading George Eliot's Middlemarch. Here, at the beginning of Chapter 38, is a typical group of Top Middlemarchers in discussion:
VL  - 29
IS  - 1
SN  - 0024-2535
DO  - 10.1108/eb012703
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012703
AU  - GRIFFIN BRIAN
PY  - 1980
Y1  - 1980/01/01
TI  - KNOWLEDGE: GENERAL OR USEFUL?
T2  - Library Review
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 33
EP  - 35
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -