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Becoming Elizabeth Arden:
The Woman Behind the Global
Beauty Empire

Elizabeth Arden was one of America’s greatest entrepreneurs. A skilled and talented business woman, she began life in rural Canada as Florence Nightingale Graham and transformed herself into Elizabeth Arden, the multinational cosmetics magnate. She was an inventor, an innovator, a designer, and CEO of the company she started in 1910 and ran until her death in 1966. Arden trained and hired generations of women, created the first luxury spa, and insisted on a holistic understanding of health and beauty. Despite her phenomenal success and her many achievements, she’s barely remembered by history. This new biography, the first written by a historian, will explore her unconventional life and bring her many and important accomplishments back into focus.