Samuel Smiles SCOTTISH WRITER WRITTEN BY: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica LAST UPDATED: Apr 12, 2020 See Article History Samuel Smiles , (born Dec. 23, 1812, Haddington , Berwickshire, Scot.—died April 16, 1904, London), Scottish author best known for his didactic work Self-Help (1859), which, with its successors, Character (1871), Thrift (1875), and Duty (1880), enshrined the basic Victorian values associated with the “gospel of work.” Samuel Smiles QUICK FACTS View Media Page BORN December 23, 1812 Haddington , Scotland DIED April 16, 1904 (aged 91) London , England One of 11 children left fatherless in 1832, Smiles learned the meaning of self-reliance. Although he qualified in medicine at Edinburgh in 1832, he soon abandoned medical practice for journalism, moving to Leeds, where from 1838 to 1842 he edited the progress...
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