Mr. Selfridge is a biography of the flamboyant and imaginative American creator of Selfridge's, the luxurious department store in London. Harry Gordon Selfridge ('Mile a Minute Harry'), a man on a mission to make shopping as exciting as sex, lives in London in1909, when women were delighting in a newfound feeling of independence and modernity. Harry, who was daring and impulsive and possessed an almost manic level of energy, established a retail theater in which any topic or trend that was novel, interesting, entertaining, or simply odd could be displayed.
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Mr. Selfridge is a biography of the flamboyant and imaginative American creator of Selfridge's, the luxurious department store in London. Harry Gordon Selfridge ('Mile a Minute Harry'), a man on a mission to make shopping as exciting as sex, lives in London in1909, when women were delighting in a newfound feeling of independence and modernity. Harry, who was daring and impulsive and possessed an almost manic level of energy, established a retail theater in which any topic or trend that was novel, interesting, entertaining, or simply odd could be displayed.
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