Can I read A Woman Of Substance on EtoBox?

A Woman Of Substance by Bradford, Barbara Taylor is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Woman Of Substance about?

Emma Harte Lowther Ainsley is seventy-eight years old and one of the richest most powerful women in the world. Self-reliant and ruthless, she uses money as a weapon and adversity as a tool. In her poverty-stricken youth, Emma exhibited an uncommon amount of initiative and intelligence even as a maidservant on a Yorkshire estate. Pregnant and unwed at fifteen, she fled her shameful situation to seek anonymity in a grimy manufacturing town. Here the cogs of machinery would become wheels of fortune for the enterprising young woman. Her business began as a small fixed shop of homemade treats and expanded into a major department store. At the age of twenty-five she was a successful businesswoman, and by fifty she was an international corporate power. Emma's ambition, sacrifice, and fearless optimism had built a financial empire deficient in only one commodity - personal happiness. Between ill-fated romances and discordant marriages she fought death, war, even her own children, plus the haunting memory of her first love. Only two men - one a friend, one a lover - would tear Emma's mind away from the all-absorbing business with which she tried to fill her empty heart. One would be a sourc

Who reads A Woman Of Substance?

Author

Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Publisher

NEW YORK TORONTO LONDON SYDNEY AUCKLAND

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312588885

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.16 / 5 (76 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13