Samuel Smiles is regarded as one of the father’s of the self-help book. The so-called “Self-help” industry is now a $ multi-billion business, with Oprah Winfrey being one of its most successful exponents.
Like Oprah, Smiles was also a firm believer in hard work and enterprise, extolling the virtues of the Victorian engineers as much as personal character development.
I wonder what he would have made of modern British politics.
The Witch of Worcester 