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Thirty-four women contributed articles to the edition. The 1911 edition for the first time saw a number of female contributors. Eliot wrote 'Soul curled up on the window seat reading the Encyclopædia Britannica' he was certainly thinking of the eleventh edition. It must be the last encyclopædia in the tradition of Diderot which assumes that information can be made memorable only when it is slightly coloured by prejudice. One leaps from one subject to another, fascinated as much by the play of mind and the idiosyncrasies of their authors as by the facts and dates. Sir Kenneth Clark, in Another Part of the Wood, wrote of the Eleventh Edition: The Eleventh Edition formed the basis for every edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica up until 1974, when the completely new Fifteenth Edition, based on modern information presentation, was published. The Eleventh Edition was a notable reorganization and rewriting of the Encyclopædia Britannica, which was first published in three volumes in 1768. Among these lesser known contributors were some who would later achieve greatness such as Ernest Rutherford and Bertrand Russell. The majority of the work was done by a mix of journalists, British Museum staff, and academics. The best known authors generally contributed only a single article or part of an article, however. Many articles are still of value and interest to modern readers and scholars. Many others were carried over from the Ninth Edition, some with minimal updating, some of the book-length articles divided into smaller parts for easier reference, yet others heavily abridged. Huxley, William Michael Rossetti, Albert Einstein and Henry Ford, as well as many other names now less known. Bury, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Muir, Prince Peter Kropotkin, T.H.

The edition is still often regarded as the greatest edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, with many articles being up to 10 times the length of those in other encyclopædias.ġ913 advertisement for the 11th editionSome articles were written by the best-known scholars of the age, such as Edmund Gosse, J. The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) represents in many ways the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century.

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