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Charles Sheldon French
Best known today for a sharp, socially minded novel about labor and class in Massachusetts, this little-known writer also published poetry. His surviving works suggest a writer interested in both everyday beauty and the pressures of working life.
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The worship of the golden calf: A story of wage-slavery in Massachusetts
by Charles Sheldon French
About the author
Charles Sheldon French was an American author active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Library and catalog records connect him with Sugar Maple and Other Poems and The Worship of the Golden Calf: A Story of Wage-Slavery in Massachusetts, showing a range that ran from verse to fiction with a strong social theme.
The title and surviving editions of The Worship of the Golden Calf point to his interest in labor, inequality, and the human cost of industrial life in Massachusetts. That gives his work a grounded, reform-minded feel that can still catch a modern reader's attention.
Some catalog records list his life dates as 1855 or 1856 to 1914, so even basic biographical details are a little uncertain. Because reliable modern biographical sources are scarce, much of what survives publicly today comes through library catalogs, digitized editions, and public-domain archives rather than full-length biographies.