Charles Knight:

Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century

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Robert Mudie (1777-1842)

Scottish autodidact who after emigrating to London in 1821 worked as a reporter for the Morning Chronicle and edited the Sunday Times; he was a prolific writer, described by Charles Knight as “nearer to the idea of a hack author of the old times than any man I ever saw.” Scottish autodidact who after emigrating to London in 1821 worked as a reporter for the Morning Chronicle and edited the Sunday Times; he was a prolific writer, described by Charles Knight as “nearer to the idea of a hack author of the old times than any man I ever saw.”