50 Shades of Chambray
Date
6-2015
Pages
70-73, 108-111
Abstract
A play on words of the title, “50 Shades of Grey,” the author gives an account of how the Saco-Biddeford cotton industry gave rise to a 19th century pulp fiction craze that featured hard-working, docile, white farm girls seeking their fortunes in the textile industry only to be ruined by cads looking to take advantage of them. The Saco-Biddeford factory girl tales were eventually condemned and phased out as a new wave of workers who were primarily immigrants took over the jobs and the middle-class lost interest in the factory-girl fiction. [illustrations, photographs]
Subjects
Textile industry--Maine, Fiction
Recommended Citation
De Wolfe, Elizabeth A., "50 Shades of Chambray" (2015). Maine News Index - Down East Magazine. 4345.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/news_downeast/4345
Source
Down East