Marie Van Vorst [1867-1936] was an American novelist and poet, but is most remembered for going undercover to expose the plight of female workers, Marie went to work in a Lynn, Massachusetts shoe factory under the name of Belle Ballard for "The Woman That Toils," a series for Everybody's Magazine produced by Marie and her sister-in-law, Bessie Van Vorst. This is a quality collection of her poetry published in 1903.
link to the free book
Pages
- Home
- About Me
- Henry Abbey
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Jean Blewett
- William Allen Butler
- Bliss Carman
- Emily Dickinson
- Robert Frost
- Adam Lindsay Gordon
- Elizabeth Gordon
- Alfred Perceval Graves
- David Gray
- John Harris
- Ralph Hodgson
- Laurence Hope
- Helen Hunt Jackson
- John Keats
- Rudyard Kipling
- Lucy Larcom
- Robert Loveman
- Ernest McGaffey
- Harriet Monroe
- James Oppenheim
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Cecil Roberts
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Robert W. Service
- Richard Henry Stoddard
- Katharine Tynan
- Richard Watson Dixon
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