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Scottish author and reformer
Samuel Smiles
Works
- Physical education; or, The nurture and management of children (1838) [(external scan)
- History of Ireland and the Irish people, under the government of England (1844) (external scan)
- Workmen's earnings, strikes, and savings (1861) (external scan)
Self help topics
- Self-Help (1859) (external scan)
- Character (1871) (external scan)
- Thrift (1875) (external scan)
- Duty (1880) (external scan)
- Homes: how they are made happy (1884) (external scan)
- Happy homes and the hearts that make them: or, Thrifty people and why they thrive (1883) (external scan)
- Life and Labour (1887) (external scan)
Biographical works
- The Life of George Stephenson (1857) (external scan)
- Brief biographies (1860) (external scan)
- Lives of the Engineers (1862) vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4
- Industrial Biography (1863) (external scan)
- James Brindley and the Early Engineers (1864) (external scan)
- Lives of Boulton and Watt (1865) (external scan)
- The life of Thomas Telford, civil engineer: with an introductory history of roads and traveling in Great Britain (1867) (external scan)
- The Huguenots: their settlements, churches and industries in England and Ireland (1867) (external scan)
- The life of George Stephenson and of his son Robert Stephenson; comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the railway locomotive (1868) (external scan)
- A boy's voyage round the world : including a residence in Victoria, and a journey by rail across North America (1871) (external scan)
- The Huguenots in France (1873) (external scan)
- Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward (1875) (external scan)
- George Moore, Merchant and Philanthropist (1878) (external scan)
- Robert Dick, Baker of Thurso, Geologist and Botanist (1878) (external scan)
- Men of Invention and Industry (1884)(external scan)
- James Nasmyth, engineer, an autobiography (1885) (external scan)
- A Publisher and his Friends. Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray (1891) vol 1, vol 2
- Jasmin. Barber, Poet, Philanthropist (1891) (external scan)
- Josiah Wedgwood, his Personal History (1894) (external scan)
- The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles, LLD (1905) external link
Works about Smiles
- "Smiles, Samuel," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Smiles, Samuel," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Smiles, Samuel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Smiles, Samuel," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
- review of Smiles 1875: Harting, James Edmund, ed. (1877). "Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward. By Samuel Smiles, Author of 'Lives of the Engineers,' 'Self Help,' &c. 8vo, pp. 438.London: Murray, 1876". The Zoologist. 3rd series, vol 1 (2—February, section 'Notices of New Books'): 71–76.
See also
- Wikisource:WikiProject The Samuel Smiles Project
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