Discover the true story of how Martha Matilda Harper, a servant girl from the time she was seven years old, became a successful entrepreneur and created modern franchising in 1891 with her Harper Method, a healthy hair and skincare salons. Ultimately, she had 500 shops around the world, employing poor women, and delighting British royalty, U.S Presidents, suffragists like Susan B. Anthony, society men and women including Bertha Palmer and the Kennedy clan, actors and actresses like Danny Kaye and Helen Hayes, and writers including cynic George Bernard Shaw. She invented the first reclining shampoo chair and accomplished all this by using business for social change.