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Vorse, Mary Heaton, 1874-1966We have 2 books for this author.
 Mary Heaton Vorse or Mary Heaton Vorse O'Brien (October 11, 1874 - 1966) was a U.S. suffragette, journalist, labor activist, theatre patron, and feminist. LifeMary Heaton Vorse was born in New York City. She married three times: Albert White Vorse (d. 1910) in 1898, Joseph O'Brien (d. 1915) in 1912, and Robert Minor in 1920.[1] Activism and journalismShe was outspokenly active in peace and social justice causes, such as women's suffrage, civil rights, pacifism (specifically including opposition to World War I), socialism, child labor, infant mortality, labor disputes, and affordable housing. She was instrumental in forming the Women's Peace Party in January 1915 in Washington, D.C. Newspapers and journals she wrote for included the New York Post, New York World, McCall's, Harper's Weekly, Atlantic Monthly, The Masses, New Masses, New Republic, and McClure's Magazine, as well as various news services.[2] She participated in and reported on the Lawrence textile strike, the steel strike of 1919, the textile workers strike of 1934, and coal strikes in Harlan County, Kentucky.[3] and [4] NovelsShe was also a popular novelist for several decades and published poetry as well. Her writing helped her raise three children without a husband. She wrote 18 books including: The Breaking-In of a Yachtsman's Wife (1908), The Very Little Person (1911), The Autobiography of an Elderly Woman (1911), The Heart's Country (1913), The Prestons (1918), I've Come to Stay (1919), Growing Up (1920), Men and Steel (1921), Fraycar's Fist (1923), A Footnote to Folly (1935), Labor's New Millions (1938) and Time and the Town (1942).[1] TheatreMost of her adult life was based in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In late 1915, she purchased Lewis Wharf on Provincetown Harbor and joined with other left-wing writers, including Floyd Dell, Eugene O'Neill, John Reed, George Cram Cook, Edna St.Vincent Millay, Susan Glaspell, and Louise Bryant to form the Provincetown Players. Notes
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This biographical information was gathered from the Mary_Heaton_Vorse page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project. BooksThe Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authorsThe Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors |
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