One 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.
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