Harrods

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Employer Antonia White
As a highly skilled copywriter she was paid £600 a year.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
96
She kept working there almost all through her first pregnancy, and after an unhappy interval working for Harrods she went back to Crawfords...
Textual Production Mary Anne Barker
During her years on her New Zealand sheep station, from 1865 to 1868, MAB wrote lively, descriptive letters home to her younger and sole surviving sister Louisa Stewart (later Scott). She also kept detailed records...

Timeline

1849: Henry Charles Harrod took over the small...

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1849

Henry Charles Harrod took over the small grocery shop of a friend in Brompton Road, London; this was the birth of Harrods department store.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
215

1885: Breaking with established department store...

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1885

Breaking with established department store practice, Harrods began to offer credit to select customers.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
234

1889: Harrods (already a leading retail outlet)...

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1889

Harrods (already a leading retail outlet) passed from family ownership to become a Limited Liability Company, thus beginning a trend which swept up most of the great department stores.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
234, 240-1

1898: Harrods unveiled its moving staircase (an...

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1898

Harrods unveiled its moving staircase (an early form of the escalator) to great publicity, astonishment, and delight.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
234-5

March 1909: Harry Gordon Selfridge opened a department...

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March 1909

Harry Gordon Selfridge opened a department store on Oxford Street, London.
Ferry, John William. A History of the Department Store. Macmillan, 1960.
223-5
Wilson, Elizabeth. Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity. Virago Press, 1985.
152

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