A Woman of Substance review – a lavishly absurd, cliche-packed tribute to simpler times | Television
Basically, there was hassle at ’mill. Or at the very least t’mill proprietor’s home. This is the fons et origo of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s A Woman of Substance. The quintessential rags-to-riches story, of impoverished Yorkshire lass Emma Harte making her manner to the highest of the style enterprise, was revealed in 1979 – however it…