The woman of substance
Subtitle: the life and works of Barbara Taylor Bradford
By: Piers Dudgeon
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bath, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9781405611848; 9781405621717
Subjects: Biography; English Novelists; American Novelists; English Women novelists; American Women novelists
Description: Barbara Taylor Bradford's first novel, A Woman of Substance, is one of the biggest selling novels of all time, and Emma Harte, her powerful heroine, went on to inspire women the world over. Yet Barbara's rise to fame and fortune was not an easy one. She came from humble beginnings in Yorkshire, but her drive, ambition and desire to triumph was to reap huge dividends when she took the Yorkshire Evening Post and then London's Fleet Street by storm. But the imagination works in remarkable ways. For what Piers Dudgeon discovered - to Barbara's shock - is that Emma Harte's rise from Edwardian kitchen maid, single and pregnant, to one of the richest women in the world, bears an uncanny resemblance to Barbara's own family history - about which she was previously unaware.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.