Samuel Smiles
Biographic Data
| ID | 5652528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Smiles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Smiles |
| SIGNATURE | SMILES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Phillips Exeter Academy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1894 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland
One of the most popular Victorian writers, Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) made his name in 1859 with the original self-improvement manual, Self-Help. His highly successful multi-volume Lives of the Engineers contained biographies of men who had, like him, achieved greatness not through privilege but through hard work. In this 1867 book, Smiles examines the part played in British society and economic life by the Protestants who either left France to es…
Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland
A Publisher and his Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768–1843
This two-volume account of the life and friendships of the publisher John Murray (1778–1843), told largely through his voluminous correspondence, was published in 1891 by Samuel Smiles (1812–1904), whose Lives of the Engineers, Self-Help, and other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Murray was only fifteen when his father, the founder of the famous firm, died, but after a period of apprenticeship he took sole control of …
The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer: With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain
This biography of the civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757–1834) was published in 1867 by Samuel Smiles (1812–1904), the author of Self-Help and of other biographies of engineers and innovators. Smiles had already written about Telford's life and achievements in Volume 2 of his Lives of the Engineers (which is also reissued in this series), but in returning to the topic he adds to this new edition an introductory section (taken from Volume 1 of Li…
A Publisher and his Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768–1843
This two-volume account of the life and friendships of the publisher John Murray (1778–1843), told largely through his voluminous correspondence, was published in 1891 by Samuel Smiles (1812–1904), whose Lives of the Engineers, Self-Help, and other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Murray was only fifteen when his father, the founder of the famous firm, died, but after a period of apprenticeship he took sole control of …
Autobiography of Samuel Smiles, LL. D.
Publisher and His Friends: Volume 2
Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843
Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer: With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain
Thrift, the Scotch Naturalist, George Moore, Etc
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The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles
One of the most popular Victorian writers, Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) made his name in 1859 with the original self-improvement manual Self-Help. His highly successful multi-volume Lives of the Engineers (also reissued in this series) contained biographies of men who had, like him, achieved greatness not through privilege but through hard work. Left incomplete at his death, edited by the social theorist Thomas Mackay (1849–1912) and first published…
Lives of the Engineers: Volume 1
Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer
Lives of the Engineers: Volume 3
Lives of the Engineers: Volume 2
Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period. Following the engineer's death in 1848, Smiles published his highly successful Life of George Stephenson in 1857 (also reissued in this series). His interest in engineering evolved and he began working on biographies of Britain's most notable engineers from the Roman to the Victorian era. Originally published in three volumes between 18…
Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period. Following the engineer's death in 1848, Smiles published his highly successful Life of George Stephenson in 1857 (also reissued in this series). His interest in engineering evolved and he began working on biographies of Britain's most notable engineers from the Roman to the Victorian era. Originally published in three volumes between 18…
Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period. Following the engineer's death in 1848, Smiles published his highly successful Life of George Stephenson in 1857 (also reissued in this series). His interest in engineering evolved and he began working on biographies of Britain's most notable engineers from the Roman to the Victorian era. Originally published in three volumes between 18…
The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period, paying particular attention to engineers. His first biography was of George Stephenson (1781–1848), whom he met at the opening of the North Midland Railway in 1840. After Stephenson died, Smiles wrote a memoir of him for Eliza Cook's Journal. With the permission of Stephenson's son, Robert, this evolved into the first full biography of …
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
As readers of this journal need no reminding, research into the growth and development of museums and the history of collecting has grown apace in recent years. But the explosion of interest in all aspects of the museum world has produced a literature that tends towards the particular rather than the general. Although a number of scholars have reflected on museum culture in its widest sense, offering theoretical and critical readings of the colle…
What Lies Beneath
The British landscape before, during, and immediately after the Second World War was a major preoccupation for many members of the creative élite. As David Matless showed in Landscape and Englishness, the dispute over the countryside was not a Manichean contest between progressives and conservatives; it was, rather, an engaged discussion whose interlocutors disagreed chiefly on the best way to reconcile the rural environment with modernity.1 With…
"Britain's "Two Nations: Reconciliation, Reform, or Revolution
Samuel Palmer and the pastoral inheritance
Lives of the Engineers: Selections from Samuel Smiles
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Lives of the Engineers: Selections from Samuel Smiles
Samuel Palmer and the pastoral inheritance
"Britain's "Two Nations: Reconciliation, Reform, or Revolution
Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
As readers of this journal need no reminding, research into the growth and development of museums and the history of collecting has grown apace in recent years. But the explosion of interest in all aspects of the museum world has produced a literature that tends towards the particular rather than the general. Although a number of scholars have reflected on museum culture in its widest sense, offering theoretical and critical readings of the colle…
What Lies Beneath
The British landscape before, during, and immediately after the Second World War was a major preoccupation for many members of the creative élite. As David Matless showed in Landscape and Englishness, the dispute over the countryside was not a Manichean contest between progressives and conservatives; it was, rather, an engaged discussion whose interlocutors disagreed chiefly on the best way to reconcile the rural environment with modernity.1 With…
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period. Following the engineer's death in 1848, Smiles published his highly successful Life of George Stephenson in 1857 (also reissued in this series). His interest in engineering evolved and he began working on biographies of Britain's most notable engineers from the Roman to the Victorian era. Originally published in three volumes between 18…
Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period. Following the engineer's death in 1848, Smiles published his highly successful Life of George Stephenson in 1857 (also reissued in this series). His interest in engineering evolved and he began working on biographies of Britain's most notable engineers from the Roman to the Victorian era. Originally published in three volumes between 18…
Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period. Following the engineer's death in 1848, Smiles published his highly successful Life of George Stephenson in 1857 (also reissued in this series). His interest in engineering evolved and he began working on biographies of Britain's most notable engineers from the Roman to the Victorian era. Originally published in three volumes between 18…
The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period, paying particular attention to engineers. His first biography was of George Stephenson (1781–1848), whom he met at the opening of the North Midland Railway in 1840. After Stephenson died, Smiles wrote a memoir of him for Eliza Cook's Journal. With the permission of Stephenson's son, Robert, this evolved into the first full biography of …
The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles
One of the most popular Victorian writers, Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) made his name in 1859 with the original self-improvement manual Self-Help. His highly successful multi-volume Lives of the Engineers (also reissued in this series) contained biographies of men who had, like him, achieved greatness not through privilege but through hard work. Left incomplete at his death, edited by the social theorist Thomas Mackay (1849–1912) and first published…
Lives of the Engineers: Volume 1
Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer
Lives of the Engineers: Volume 3
Lives of the Engineers: Volume 2
A Publisher and his Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768–1843
This two-volume account of the life and friendships of the publisher John Murray (1778–1843), told largely through his voluminous correspondence, was published in 1891 by Samuel Smiles (1812–1904), whose Lives of the Engineers, Self-Help, and other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Murray was only fifteen when his father, the founder of the famous firm, died, but after a period of apprenticeship he took sole control of …
The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer: With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain
This biography of the civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757–1834) was published in 1867 by Samuel Smiles (1812–1904), the author of Self-Help and of other biographies of engineers and innovators. Smiles had already written about Telford's life and achievements in Volume 2 of his Lives of the Engineers (which is also reissued in this series), but in returning to the topic he adds to this new edition an introductory section (taken from Volume 1 of Li…
A Publisher and his Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768–1843
This two-volume account of the life and friendships of the publisher John Murray (1778–1843), told largely through his voluminous correspondence, was published in 1891 by Samuel Smiles (1812–1904), whose Lives of the Engineers, Self-Help, and other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Murray was only fifteen when his father, the founder of the famous firm, died, but after a period of apprenticeship he took sole control of …
Autobiography of Samuel Smiles, LL. D.
Publisher and His Friends: Volume 2
Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843
Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer: With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain
Thrift, the Scotch Naturalist, George Moore, Etc
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland
One of the most popular Victorian writers, Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) made his name in 1859 with the original self-improvement manual, Self-Help. His highly successful multi-volume Lives of the Engineers contained biographies of men who had, like him, achieved greatness not through privilege but through hard work. In this 1867 book, Smiles examines the part played in British society and economic life by the Protestants who either left France to es…
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