A Woman of Substance Author:Barbara Taylor Bradford 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... more » unwed at fifteen, she fled her shameful situation to seek anonymity in a grimy manufacturing town...« less