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Salon
A television series based on the lives of Martha Mathilda Harper, Susan B. Anthony and Helen Pine Smith; entrepreneur, feminist, and spiritual healer. Set in the late 1800s in Rochester, New York.
SALON ‘Downton Abbey’ meets America’s New Woman
An American period drama series set in Rochester, NY, during the Gilded Age. A true story.
A poor servant girl, through inspired vision and determination, takes her talents into the male dominated business world of the late 19th century and successfully defines what beauty and equality really are.
From servant girl to business magnate, Martha Matilda Harper’s rags to riches story is the ideal of the American dream. Her magnificent hair is her physical trademark but her inspired vision, willingness to learn, service to others and spiritual understanding are the qualities that take her to the top. At age seven her father sent her away from home to work as a domestic servant. During her many years in servitude she honed her skills in hair care and developed an organic hair tonic that would revolutionize how women washed and dressed their hair. In 1888, on the verge of launching her unprecedented idea of a public hair salon, Martha became deathly ill. She requested the help of a Christian Science practitioner and was healed. Her new found strength and inspiration opened the door to the first ‘Harper Hair Salon’ and her business grew beyond her wildest dreams, leading her to become the creator of franchising as we know it today.
This did not come without struggle and hardship as Martha had to face her own lack of self worth and inferiority in a time when men held all the power. She, along with her friend Susan B. Anthony, were willing to push against patriarchal domination and prove that women, doing it their way, have an equal and necessary place in business and government. Martha not only realized her dream but she paid the dream forward for those who worked for her. Determined not to marry in her younger years, knowing it could sabotage her success, she eventually marries an enlightened young man, many years her junior.
This tv series, with its unique cast of fascinating historical characters, is set in the remarkable period called the Gilded Age - a time when the business world was masculine and ruthless and women were meant to be at home. This period in history includes the Robber Barons, the New Woman, New Thought, Suffragettes, the Gibson Girls, as well as the invention of the Kodak camera, the bicycle and the phonograph (to name a few). Martha Matilda Harper’s story is a remarkable tale.
Salon is remarkable television, and as a television series, promises to challenge, entertain, teach and inspire.