Author:Samuel Smiles

Works

 * Physical education; or, The nurture and management of children (1838) [
 * History of Ireland and the Irish people, under the government of England (1844)
 * Workmen's earnings, strikes, and savings (1861)

Self help topics

 * Self-Help (1859)
 * Character (1871)
 * Thrift (1875)
 * Duty (1880)
 * Homes: how they are made happy (1884)
 * Happy homes and the hearts that make them: or, Thrifty people and why they thrive (1883)
 * Life and Labour (1887)

Biographical works

 * The Life of George Stephenson (1857)
 * Brief biographies (1860)
 * Lives of the Engineers (1862)
 * Vol 1: Early works – Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Capt John Perry, Sir Hugh Myddleton, James Brindley
 * Vol 2: Harbours, Lighthouses and Bridges – John Smeaton, John Rennie and Thomas Telford
 * Vol 3: The Locomotive – George Stephenson and Robert Stephenson
 * Vol 4: The Steam Engine – Boulton and Watt
 * Vol 5 (1879): The Locomotive – George Stephenson and Robert Stephenson (Revised)
 * (1904): History of Roads – John Metcalf and Thomas Telford
 * Industrial Biography (1863)
 * James Brindley and the Early Engineers (1864)
 * Lives of Boulton and Watt (1865)
 * The life of Thomas Telford, civil engineer: with an introductory history of roads and traveling in Great Britain (1867)
 * The Huguenots: their settlements, churches and industries in England and Ireland (1867)
 * 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)
 * A boy's voyage round the world : including a residence in Victoria, and a journey by rail across North America (1871)
 * The Huguenots in France (1873)
 * Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward (1875)
 * George Moore, Merchant and Philanthropist (1878)
 * Robert Dick, Baker of Thurso, Geologist and Botanist (1878)
 * Men of Invention and Industry (1884)
 * James Nasmyth, engineer, an autobiography (1885)
 * A Publisher and his Friends. Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray (1891) vol 1, vol 2
 * Jasmin. Barber, Poet, Philanthropist (1891)
 * Josiah Wedgwood, his Personal History (1894)
 *  The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles, LLD (1905) external link

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