Samuel Smiles published Self-Help in 1859. It was the best-seller of the Industrial Revolution — more than 250,000 copies sold. It’s availability on a mazon.com and barnesandnoble.com shows ...

Smiles died on April 16, 1904; the genre he created continued to blossom. Frank Daniels III: 615-881-7039, [email protected], on Twitter @fdanielsiii.

In 1859, as Great Britain’s Victorian era steamed into its third decade, a Scotsman named Samuel Smiles published a book titled Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct.In it, Smiles ...

Smiles adapted Emersonian messages for a more plebeian audience, first in lectures to Yorkshire mechanics’ institutes in the 1840s, then in Self-Help, published in 1859, and its later, lesser ...

Difficulties, he thought, were there to weed out the weak and build what he called “pushing character”. The sort of people Smiles held up as models—the potter Josiah Wedgwood and the ...

ON Saturday, December 4, a bronze tablet to the memory of Samuel Smiles was unveiled at Zion School, Leeds, by Sir James Baillie, vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds. In the course of his ...