A Woman of Substance

About “A Woman of Substance”

Emma Harte Lowther Ainsley is seventy-eight, one of the richest and most powerful women in the world, self-reliant and ruthless, using money as a weapon. Pregnant and unwed at fifteen while a maidservant on a Yorkshire estate, she fled to a manufacturing town, built a business from a small shop into a major department store, and became an international corporate power by fifty.