Joe is the village blacksmith ... Samuel Smiles' book Self-Help was published just a year before Great Expectations.

Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife "Mrs. Joe". When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under ...

Great Expectations introduced the narrator "Pip" and his story to the world, as well as other memorable characters including Joe Gargery the blacksmith, Abel Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella.

Joe is the village blacksmith ... Samuel Smiles' book Self-Help was published just a year before Great Expectations.