Abstract:
Ethel Thomas was a North Carolina author who wrote under the pen name, 'Aunt Becky,' and published in the Charlotte area during the first half of the 19th century. Thomas wrote fictional accounts about the Southern textile industry which was a large economic cog of the Charlotte area. Publisher David Clark, owner of the Southern Textile Bulletin, reprinted several of Thomas' novels in his magazine as well as put 'Aunt Becky' in a weekly column where she served up folksy success stories, advice, news, descriptions of Southern mill towns she had visited.