A charming, dynamic, brilliant, and forceful man who enjoys and respects women, Harry opens the doors of his opulent department story on London's famed Oxford Street to indulge, empower and celebrate them, changing the way the British-and the world-shopped forever. Selfridge is set in an era when women reveled in a new sense of freedom and modernity. While his dreams inspire many, they also challenge the staid conventions of British society.Ī saga bursting with love affairs, class divisions, cultural clashes, ambition, betrayals, and secrets, Mr. American retail visionary Harry Selfridge moves to London in 1906 with his family to establish the most ambitious department store the world had ever seen. Selfridge follows a colorful cast of characters whose lives and fortunes are entangled with the founder of the magnificent department store that bears his name: Selfridge’s. Selfridge illuminates the passions, drama, tensions, and promise of the early twentieth century, embodied in one charming, dynamic, self-made man: department store tycoon Harry Gordon Selfridge.
Set at the crossroads between the old and the new-when the Victorian and Edwardian eras gave way to the modern age- Mr. Selfridge that vividly brings into focus the remarkable man and his time. The official, full-color, illustrated, behind-the-scenes companion to the lavish hit ITV and PBS television series Mr.
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