{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-samuel-smiles-ll-d-paperback-9781108057493","title":"The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles, LL.D. (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108057493","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Autobiography of Samuel Smiles, LL.D.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe autobiography, published in 1905, of one of the most popular Victorian writers, whose Self-Help (1859) made his name.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSamuel Smiles (Author), Thomas Mackay (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108057493, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 May 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e478 pages, 2 b\/w illus.  1 music example\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOne 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 in 1905, his autobiography opens with a vivid description of the Scottish garrison town of his birth during the Napoleonic wars. In his later years he was a vocal supporter of state education, and the value of education was a constant theme throughout his life. He remembers his schooldays here with clarity, writing that 'a good education is equivalent to a good fortune'. Straightforward and unpretentious, this book will be of interest to historians and readers fascinated by the Victorian drive for self-improvement.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Boyhood and education\u003cbr\u003e 2. Youthful recollections\u003cbr\u003e 3. A student of medicine\u003cbr\u003e 4. Reform, the Lauder raid, the cholera\u003cbr\u003e 5. Surgeon in Haddington\u003cbr\u003e 6. A rolling stone gathers no moss\u003cbr\u003e 7. Returns to England: London, Sheffield\u003cbr\u003e 8. Editor of the Leeds Times\u003cbr\u003e 9. Life in Leeds\u003cbr\u003e 10. I leave political life\u003cbr\u003e 11. End of residence in Leeds\u003cbr\u003e 12. Newcastle and the neighbourhood\u003cbr\u003e 13. Secretary of the South-Eastern Railway\u003cbr\u003e 14. A successful author at last!\u003cbr\u003e 15. Railway work: Charing Cross line\u003cbr\u003e 16. Lives of the Engineers, and other works\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Huguenots: travels in France\u003cbr\u003e 18. The North Frisian Islands\u003cbr\u003e 19. Character, illness, a long rest\u003cbr\u003e 20. Thrift, The Scotch Naturalist, George Moore, etc.\u003cbr\u003e 21. Visit to Italy\u003cbr\u003e 22. Growing old\u003cbr\u003e 23. Appreciation from foreigners\u003cbr\u003e 24. Translations, Royat, Italy\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: British \u0026amp; Irish history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on British \u0026amp; Irish history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22British%20\u0026amp;%20Irish%20history%20%5BHBJD1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913302827288,"sku":"9781108057493","price":38.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108057493i.jpg?v=1696747347","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-autobiography-of-samuel-smiles-ll-d-paperback-9781108057493","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}