The story of how entrepreneur Martha Matilda Harper created America's first retail franchise network, a radical new business model that encouraged other women to own businesses, to enrich themselves spiritually and financially, and even to marry - all on their own terms.

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

Biographies & Memoirs

Plitt, Jane R

Community & Culture

Syracuse Univ Pr

Martha the Hairpreneur is a fictionalized story about a real young Canadian girl who came to America with $60 and a recipe for a hair tonic. With her ravishing floor length hair and determination, she creates a world-wide beauty empire . She is a real Rapunzel who rescues herself and other poor women.

Martha the Hairpreneur: From Servant to Business Empress

Valentine, Sally

Professionals & Academics

Jade Publishing

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.

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

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