Vorse, Mary Heaton, 1874-1966
Variant namesMary Heaton Vorse (nee Mary Marvin Heaton), author, labor journalist, and social critic, was born in New York City on October 11, 1874 and grew up in Amherst, Mass. Her parents traveled extensively in Europe and Mary received a major part of her education abroad, where she learned to speak fluent French, Italian, and German. Her early desire was to be an artist and as a young woman she spent several winters studying art in Paris.
Albert White Vorse, whom she married in 1898, died in 1910. She married Joseph O'Brien in 1912, and was widowed for the second time in 1915. She had three children: Heaton White Vorse, Mary Ellen (Vorse) Boyden, and Joel O'Brien. From 1907 until her death in 1966 Mrs. Vorse made her home in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Mrs. Vorse's professional writing career began when she served as a substitute book-reviewer on the Criterion, a magazine which was then being edited by her husband, Albert White Vorse. Although known in later years primarily as a labor writer and journalist, she achieved her initial success as a writer of light fiction, both short stories and novels. Her published writings include sixteen books and more than 400 articles and stories which have appeared in over 70 periodicals, including Woman's Home Companion, McCall's, Harper's, Masses, New Republic, New Yorker, McClure's, Survey, Delineator, Atlantic, and Ladies' Home Journal. In addition, she has written countless news articles and series for International News Service (INS), U.P., North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), Labor Press Associates, Federated Press, New York Post, New York World, Washington Post, Washington News, Paris Post, and many others.
In 1962 Mrs. Vorse, along with Eleanor Roosevelt and Upton Sinclair, received the Social Justice Award from the United Automobile Workers. On June 14, 1966 Mary Heaton Vorse died at her home in Provincetown.
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referencedIn | Yaddo records, 1870-1980 | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
creatorOf | Vorse, Mary Heaton, 1874-1966. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1931. | University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library | |
referencedIn | Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk). | Houghton Library | |
referencedIn | Consumers' League of Massachusetts. Records, 1891-1955 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | Frank, Adelaide Schulkind. Papers, 1925-1972 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
creatorOf | Mary Vorse Heaton Papers, 1928-1930. | Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project | |
creatorOf | Spivak, John Louis, 1897- . Papers, 1929-1948 (bulk 1929-1933). | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |
creatorOf | Turlington, Henry E., b. 1945,. The Henry E. Turlington Collection of Cyril Kay-Scott and Evelyn Scott Materials, 1881-1987, (bulk 1920-1957, 1983-1985). | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |
referencedIn | Huntington, Catharine Sargent, 1887-1987. Papers, 1913-1987 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | Robert Watts Hudgens Papers, 1925-1973 | David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library | |
referencedIn | Records, 1891-1955 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | Papers, 1925-1972 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | Century Company records | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
referencedIn | Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company reader reports on manuscripts submitted for publication. 1882-1931. | Houghton Library | |
referencedIn | Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Photographs, 1895-1967 | Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives | |
referencedIn | John L. Spivak Papers TXRC93-A6., 1929-1948 | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |
referencedIn | Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Photographs, 1895-1967 | Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives | |
referencedIn | John Reed papers, 1903-1967. | Houghton Library | |
creatorOf | Penn, William, 1644-1718. Winslow, Foye/Elder collection, 1825-1941. | Nantucket Hist Association | |
referencedIn | Huntington, Catharine Sargent, 1886-1987. Papers, 1913-1987 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | The Henry E. Turlington Collection of Cyril Kay-Scott and Evelyn Scott Materials TXRC97-A6., 1881-1987, (bulk 1920-1957, 1983-1985) | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |
referencedIn | New Yorker records | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
creatorOf | Vorse, Mary Heaton, 1874-1966. The reminiscences of Mary H. Vorse. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | Jessie Lloyd O'Connor Papers MS 254., 1850 - 1988 | Sophia Smith Collection | |
referencedIn | O'Connor, Jessie Lloyd, 1904-. Papers, 1850-1988. | Smith College, Neilson Library | |
creatorOf | Vorse, Mary Heaton, 1874-1966. Correspondence to Franklin Baldwin Wiley, ca. 1910. | University of Pennsylvania Library | |
referencedIn | Eastman, Max Forrester, 1883-1969. Eastman mss. 1892-1968 | Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington) | |
creatorOf | Vorse, Mary Heaton, 1874-1966. Reminiscences of Mary Heaton Vorse : oral history, 1957. | Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries |
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Birth 1874-10-11
Death 1966