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Lindy Woodhead narrates the rise and dramatic fall of a charismatic retailer, connecting his ambitions and expansion with changing consumer desires and mass entertainment. The book follows Selfridge’s glamorous relationships and social circle, while exploring how fashion, advertising, media, politics, arts, and wider societal shifts shaped modern commerce.","MR. SELFRIDGE  \nIs available on Blu-ray and DVD.  \nTo purchase MR. SELFRIDGE,  \nvisit [shopPBS.org](shopPBS.org).  \n• • •  \nBRITISH PRAISE FOR  \nSHOPPING, SEDUCTION & MR. SELFRIDGE  \n“Gripping and excellently researched.”  \n—Literary Review  \n“Lindy Woodhead paints a colourful picture of the American who turned Edwardian England on to shopping, and who transformed shopping into a democratic sport, entertainment for the masses anda truly capitalist endeavour.”  \n—Women’s Wear Daily  \n“In this lively and compelling biography, Lindy Woodhead follows the glory years of a charismatic big spender, whose ill-advised expansion would eventually be his downfall. Her pacy narrative takes in his glamorous women, his social set, the sexing up of shopping, and seismic shifts in society.”  \n—Director  \n“Far more than just a proɹle of one of the world’s great shopkeepers, Lindy Woodhead’s biography of Harry Gordon Selfridge provides a rich social history in a time of great change.”  \n—Spectator  \n“Perhaps the ɹrst English shop owner to identify shopping as thrilling, sexy entertainment … Lindy Woodhead tells not only the story of the rise and dramatic fall of Selfridge, the man, but also provides an enthralling description of fashion, politics, music and dance, the arts, the sciences, advertising and the use of the media.”  \n—Evening Standard  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n2013 Random House Trade Paperback Edition  \nCopyright © 2007, 2008, 2012 by Lindy Woodhead  \nAll rights reserved.  \nPublished in the United States by Random House Trade Paperbacks, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.  \nRANDOM HOUSE TRADE PAPERBACKS and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.  \nOriginally published in 2007 and 2008 in the United Kingdom as Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge in hardcover and paperback respectively, and in a revised edition in 2012 by  \nProɹle Books, Ltd, London.  \nPhoto credits are located on this page.  \neISBN: 978-0-8129-8505-4  \n[www.atrandom.com](www.atrandom.com)  \nTitle-page photo of Selfridge’s department store from English Heritage  \nCover design: Beverly Leung  \nCover photograph: © ITV 2012; photographer: John Rogers  \nv3.1_r1  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n“Woman was what the shops were ɹghting over when they competed, it was woman whom they ensnared with the constant trap of their bargains, after stunning her with their displays. They had aroused new desires in her ɻesh, they were a huge temptation to which she must fatally succumb, ɹrst of all by giving in to the purchases of a good housewife, then seduced by vanity and  \nɹnally consumed.”  \n—EMILE ZOLA,  \nAu Bonheur des Dames (1881)  \n“When I die I want it said of me that I digniɹed and ennobled  \ncommerce.”  \n—HARRY GORDON SELFRIDGE  \n(1856–1947)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nEpigraph  \nIllustrations  \nIntroduction: CONSUMING PASSIONS  \n1. THE FORTUNES OF WAR  \n2. GIVING THE LADIES WHAT THEY WANT  \n3. THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT  \n4. FULL SPEED AHEAD  \n5. GOING IT ALONE  \n6. BUILDING THE DREAM  \n7. TAKEOFF  \n8. LIGHTING UP THE NIGHT  \n9. WAR WORK, WAR PLAY  \n10. CASTLES IN THE AIR  \n11. VICES AND VIRTUES  \n12. MAKING WAVES  \n13. TOUT VA  \n14. FLIGHTS OF FANCY  \n15. OVER AND OUT  \nPhoto Inserts  \nDedication  \nAcknowledgments Notes Bibliography  \nOther Books by This Author About the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nILLUSTRATIONS  \n1. Harry Gordon Selfridge and Rosalie Selfridge on their honeymoon in Newport, Rhode Island, November 1890  \n2. Lois Selfridge, Harry’s mother, in 1906 at the age of seventy-one  \n3. Harry Selfridge, ca. 1910  \n4. Oxford Street at the corner of Duke Street, ca. 1907, before the construction of Selfridge’s  \n5. One of the many exploratory proposals for extensions to Selfridge’s drawn by Sir John Burnet and Frank Atkinson  \n6. 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