London Library
London, United Kingdom. Founded 1841.
- Type: Subscription
- City: London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Founded: 1841
Overview
Thomas Carlyle founded the London Library in 1841, frustrated by rules that silenced readers at the British Museum. Its miles of open stacks in St Jamess Square range over more than a thousand subjects, and about a million books lend freely to members. Dickens, Tennyson, George Eliot, and Agatha Christie numbered among past presidents.
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