Nelly Don: A Stitch In Time

ISBN: 159971017X

Author: Terence Michael O'Malley

Condition: Used

The most complete telling of the Nelly Don story, a classic American success tale. The author has been diligently researching Nelly Don for the last two years, trying to lay his hands on every important piece of information there is. He has had generous access to the Reed family archives and to be quite frank, without those resources, the story would not be so visually compelling. Nell's story is important for many reasons: she is one of the first and most successful self-made women millionaires in American business, she designed and sold more dresses in the 20th century than any other single person in the United States and she challenged the notion that women were best suited for domesticity.

Nelly Don collage of fashion through the decades --
NBC Radio dramatizes Nelly Don in the Golden Needle --
From County Cork, Ireland, to Jackson County, Mo --
We're in the money! --
The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune --
Handy dandy to the rescue --
David Quinlan Donnelly --
Kidnapping --
Goodbye Paul Donnelly Nell the beneficent executive --
Union target: Nelly Don --
Nelly Don goes to war --
Nelly Don at its zenith! --
Nell devotes herself to altruism.