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Description edit
The men who created the first department stores—what Zola called "great cathedrals of shopping"—made vast fortunes, but no one understood how shopping could become sexy as well as Mr. Selfridge. In 1909, his department store—London’s first and built from scratch—opened in a glorious burst of... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Harry Pilcer: Add a description of this character.
- Rosalie Selfridge
- Jenny Dolly
- Marshall Field
- Harry Gordon Selfridge
- William Whiteley
- H. Gordon Jr
- Serge de Bolotoff
- Northcliffe
- Gaby Deslys
- Andrew Holmes
- Levi Z. Leiter
- Syrie Maugham
- Ralph Blumenfeld
- Somerset Maugham
- Violette Selfridge
- Miss Rosie Dolly
- Potter Palmer
- Rosalie Amelia Buckingham
- James G. White
- Winston Churchill
- Lucy Duff Gordon
- John Shedd
- Highcliffe
- Arnold Bennett
- Lois Selfridge
- Suzanne Lenglen
- Mary Lincoln
- Madam Selfridge
- Beatrice
- Lord Beaverbrook
- Le Touquet
- Eric Dunstan
- Edward Goldsman
- Ramsay Macdonald
- Wallis Simpson
- George Curzon
- Ethel Field Beatty
- Gloria Swanson
- Percy Best
- Ivar Kreuger
- Oliver Lodge
- David Low
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Coco Chanel
- Anthony di Bosdari
- Louis Sullivan
- Michael Arlen
- C. B. Cochran
- David Beatty
- Lady Diana Cooper
- Minna
- Joseph Emile Dillon
- Kate ' Ma ' Meyrick
- Tatiana Wiasemsky
- Emerald Cunard
- Eugen Sandow
- John Burnet
- Vladimir
- Emile Zola
- Ernest Cassel
- Robert Adam
- A. H. Williams
- Bernard Partridge
- Winchester
- Ward McAllister
- Victor Saville
- Arthur Fenwick
- Mr. Wragg
- Charles Stuart
- Marconi
- Edward VIII
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Philip Tilden
- Carrie Watson
- Harley Granville-Barker
- Margot Asquith
- Mr Yoxall
- John Lewis
- Henry Wellcome
- Hilda Mepham
- Noël Coward
- Carter H. Harrison
- Woodman Burbidge
- Lloyd George
- Marie Wiasemsky
- Mrs. Rosa Lewis
- Robert Oliver Jr
- Infanta Eulalia
- Daniel Burnham
- Mr. John Lawrie
- Jack Coats
- Ivor Novello
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Mr Miller
- Peter Loomis
- Leslie Winterbottom
- John Logie Baird
- Helena Rubinstein
- Nancy Koehn
- Edward Holden
- Alice Delysia
- Lillie Langtry
- Elinor Glyn
- Albert Stanley
- Edward Price Bell
- William Randolph Hearst
- Eugénie
- Joseph Duveen
- King George V
- Duke of Westminster
- George Pullman
- Charles Frohman
- Harriet Tilden
- Bertha Potter Palmer
- Freda Dudley Ward
- Edward Stuart Wortley
- Edward VII
- Horace Imber
- Richard Morris Hunt
- Lord Lansdowne
- Nicolas Zographos
- Frank Woolworth
- Cyrus McCormick
- Mrs. Astor
- Eugène Cornuché
- Cecil Beaton
- Marcelle Rogez
- Mrs. Fraser
- Monsieur Pierre Cambon
- Phineas T. Barnum
- Aristide Boucicaut
- Charles Tyson Yerkes
- Mr. Fraser
- John Robertson
- John Musker
- Anna Pavlova
- Lord Northcliffe
- Elizabeth Arden
- Duke of Devonshire
- Harry Fox
- Mary Leiter Curzon
- Oswald Mosley
- William Joynson-Hicks
- Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
- J. M. Barrie
- Isadora Duncan
- Louis Blériot
- Cosimo de ' Medici
- Neville Chamberlain
- Thelma Furness
- Alexander Turney Stewart
- Harry Brittain
- Alfred Newton
- Mr. Asquith
- Harper
- Paul Poiret
- Norman Hartnell
- Blaise de Sibour
- Oscar Wilde
- Charles Dana Gibson
- Prince of Wales
- Jacques de Sibour
- Victoria Sackville
- Charlotte Louise
- H. G. Wells
- David Mayer
- Thomas Lipton
- Clarence Hatry
- Sergeant Goddard
- Samuel Waring
- Lincoln
- Joseph
- George Ferris
- Condé Nast
- P. D. Armour
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Mrs Meyrick
- Louis Blaise de Sibour
- D. H. Evans
- Maude Allan
- Stanley Baldwin
- Duff
- James ' Jimmy ' White
- Jackson
- Nannie Scott
- Henry Siegel
Setting & Locations edit
- London
- Chicago
- America
- Paris
- New York
- Selfridges
- England
- Harrods
- Great Britain
- Oxford Street
- Europe
- France
- Germany
- Russia
- Lansdowne House
- Hollywood
- Wales
- Deauville
- Atlantic
- Cannes
- Spain
- Dublin
- Fair
- Biarritz
- Rutland
- Lake Geneva
- Washington
- Carlton House Terrace
- Bond Street
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Profile Books
Country: England
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 186197888X
Page Count: 310
Publisher: Profile Books
Country: England
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 186197888X
Page Count: 310
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 381.141092
Subjects edit
- Books › Business & Investing › Economics › Economic History
- Books › Business & Investing › Biography & History › Company Profiles
- Books › Business & Investing › Industries & Professions › Retailing
- Books › History › Europe › England
- Books › Business & Investing › Small Business & Entrepreneurship › Entrepreneurship
- Books › Arts & Photography › Fashion › History
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Professionals & Academics › Business
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