Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings Smiles Samuel

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating ...	Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford	Samuel Smiles	Self Help	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mo...	George Gregory	Samuel Smiles	Self Help	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."	General Drummond	Samuel Smiles	LIfe and Labour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tas...	James Glass Bertram	Samuel Smiles	[biographies of men]	Print: Book