Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business

A true rags to riches story of an immigrant girl who transforms her life with her floor-length hair, grit and determination. Ultimately, Martha Matilda Harper launches modern retail franchising, empowers poor women with ownership of her 500 Harper shops worldwide, invents the reclining shampoo chair, is supported by world leaders, suffragists, society leaders, Christian Scientists, and then fades into oblivion. Discover this fascinating tale of how a real Rapunzel rescues herself and then marries a man 24 years younger. Fascinating biography for those who believe in entrepreneurship and the role women have played to shape innovative successful business and humane models.. Marvelous individual and class read about the buried role of women in history.