Marie van vorst biography

Marie Louise Van Vorst (November 23, 1867 – December 16, 1936) was an American writer, researcher, painter, and volunteer nurse during World War I.
Born 23 November 1867, New York, New York; died 16 December 1936, Florence, Italy.
Marie Louise Van Vorst was an American writer, researcher, painter, and volunteer nurse during World War I.

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MODERN FRENCH
MASTERS

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Woman Who Toils: Being the experiences of two ladies as factory girls

December 31, 2018

Sitting in my yoga class today, I realize that the young women participating in the class with me (the not so young person there) are the same as those women described working in various jobs to pay rent or buy pretty clothes. Except we are all having a yoga class together because 100 years later we have access to birth control, household appliances, and education, and yet are still prone as victims to ill health, financial dependence, and the threat of a downward spiral into poverty. The chances are much slimmer for the last item, of course, and what irritated me most about this book was the moralistic attitude about how to fix people’s fickleness, slavery for consumerism as if that was what led to such labor as described in the book. And there I was with others in expensive yoga outfits made in factories in Asia, doing yoga, a Western idea grown of vague notions and associations of Asia. Doubtless the author would have been somewhat horrified to see such righteous idleness and selfishness; an

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Marie Van Vorst

American writer (1867–1936)

Marie Louise Van Vorst (November 23, 1867 – December 16, 1936) was an American writer, researcher, painter, and volunteer nurse during World War I.

Early life

Marie Louise Van Vorst was born in New York City, the daughter of Hooper Cumming Van Vorst and Josephine Adele Treat Van Vorst. Her father was a judge on the New York City Superior Court and president of the Century Club.^[1]

Career

Van Vorst and her widowed sister-in-law, Bessie Van Vorst, moved to France and co-wrote novels together, including Bagsby's Daughter (1901). For The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experiences of Two Ladies as Factory Girls (1903), they went undercover at a pickle factory in Pittsburgh; a textile mill outside Buffalo, New York; a variety of sweat shops in Chicago; a shoe factory in Lynn, Massachusetts; and a Southern cotton mill to learn about working women's lives.^[2] The book's introduction was written by Theodore Roosevelt.^[3] Marie Van Vorst also wrote regularly for Harper's Magazine,