Samuel Smiles

IB 's younger half-sister Lucy Dorling married William Smiles, whose father, Samuel Smiles , authored the best-selling Self-Help (1859).

Scholar Nicola Humble argues that the book in large part created the new cult of domesticity that was to play such a major role in mid-Victorian life. She sees it as the feminised counterpart...

In this work, which bears a strong imprint of the writings of utilitarian thinker Samuel Smiles , JB observes how often middle-class women find themselves unemployable. She notes how limited are these women's expectations: they...

By the end of her life MG had lived longer in the USA than in Britain. In the context of her American incarnation, she writes of the capacity to shift from one national viewpoint...

They became close to a young friend met in Rome, Margaret Foley , a sculptor from New England, who took up summer residence in the same spot. Visitors to their house in Rome included...

This venture seems to have sprung from William's brief, financially damaging involvement in The People's Journal, 1846-8, whose chaotic business practices were a serious handicap to its programme for rendering workers prudent, sober, independent...

Life in the Sick-Room sold well, and HM was paid £125 by Moxon for it. Samuel Smiles in 1883 considered it one of her most delightful books. In later years, HM

Dedicated by permission to William Gladstone , The Life of Josiah Wedgwood provides a full history of pottery in Britain, beginning with the Celts and Romans. As a portrait of a captain of industry it...

She became connected through her writing to Douglas Jerrold , Mary and William Howitt , and Harriet Martineau . The difficulties of social life for unattached women are visible in her regret and anxiety over...

Those returning thanks for complimentary copies included Herbert Spencer , Samuel Smiles (full of profound truth), Charles Lapworth (an education to read), and William Tilden (who politely dissents from Lewins's opinion...

The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper. The Dictionary of Literary Biography places this among CMT 's charming and...

The timing, almost coincident with the outbreak of war, caused de la Mare to add that the touch of irony in its title at the present moment is unintentional. He likened EWW to Samuel Smiles