"In the early morning the giant mill grows active. Hear it roar, shattering the stillness for half a mile! It is full now of flesh and blood, of human life and brain and fibre; it is content! Triumphantly during the long day it devours its tithe of body and soul . ... " excerpt from The Woman Who Toils, by Marie Van Vorst.
spouse: Gaetano Cagiati
Gaetano, a widower, was 1st married to Margaret Cooksey, who died [1913] after the birth of their daughter, Margherita
Marie and Gaetano married - October 16, 1916
Notre Dame Cathedral - Paris, France
New York Herald Oct. 18, 1916
Cagiati-Van Vorst
At noon at Notre Dame Marie Van Vorst to Gaetano Cagiati, of Rome. Bride's witnesses Frederick B. Van Vorst, Hughes Leroux; [Le Roux] bridegroom's, Miss Theo Danham, Baron Henri De Luse
1867 Marie Louise Van Vorst (16 dec 1936) poet, novelist, anti-war activist.
adopted son: Frederick John Barth Van Vorst - died in Florence, 1996
Name: Marie Louise Van Vorst
born: 23 November 1867
place of birth: New York
died: 16 December 1936
place of death: Florenz
Profession: American writer, reformer
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Marie Van Vorst, now the Countess Cagrati, author of Fairfax and His Pride and numerous other books, is making her first visit to this country since the war. She was one of the of the organizers of the American Ambulance Corps, and among her varied activities for the war founded two war workshops in Rome, one for wounded soldiers and the other for making surgical dressings. She also adopted a three-year-old refugee war orphan.
TIMES BOOK REVIEW,
MAY 23, 1920
written works: "Mary Moreland", "Fairfax and His Pride", "The Queen of Karmania", "War Letters of an American Woman", "The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode", "The Broken Bell", "His Love Story", "In Ambush", "The Woman Who Toils", "Philip Longstreth", "The Girl From His Town", "Miss Desmond", "Big Tremaine", "The Sin of George Warrener", "Amanda of the Mill"
"Bessie (Mrs. John) Van Vorst and her sister-in-law Marie Van Vorst were both from New York's privileged class at the turn of the 20th century. The pair worked for several months under assumed names - Bessie as Esther Kelly, Marie as Bell Ballard - to discover first-hand the working conditions, values, and ambitions of factory girls. From a Pittsburgh pickle factory to a Lynn, Massachusetts shoe factory to a cotton mill in South Carolina, the two wrote of their experiences in what was considered a landmark work of social investigation." "The Woman Who Toils"
A book of poems by Marie was also published. "Poems by Marie Van Vorst"
Florence, Italy Dec. 19 [1936]
Private funeral service were held last night for Mrs. Maire Van Vorst, 69, widely-known novelist who lived the latter part of her life in Italy.
She died Wednesday leaving a written request that her death not be publicly announced. The cause of death was given officially as pneumonia.
The body was held in a chapel in Porte Sante Cemetery near Florence awaiting instructions for burial from Gaetano Cagiati her husband from whom she had been separated many years.
Mrs. Van Vorst was born in New York.
-Buffalo New York Currier-Express, Sunday, December 20, 1936
spouse: Gaetano Cagiati
Gaetano, a widower, was 1st married to Margaret Cooksey, who died [1913] after the birth of their daughter, Margherita
Marie and Gaetano married - October 16, 1916
Notre Dame Cathedral - Paris, France
New York Herald Oct. 18, 1916
Cagiati-Van Vorst
At noon at Notre Dame Marie Van Vorst to Gaetano Cagiati, of Rome. Bride's witnesses Frederick B. Van Vorst, Hughes Leroux; [Le Roux] bridegroom's, Miss Theo Danham, Baron Henri De Luse
1867 Marie Louise Van Vorst (16 dec 1936) poet, novelist, anti-war activist.
adopted son: Frederick John Barth Van Vorst - died in Florence, 1996
Name: Marie Louise Van Vorst
born: 23 November 1867
place of birth: New York
died: 16 December 1936
place of death: Florenz
Profession: American writer, reformer
Clipping:
Marie Van Vorst, now the Countess Cagrati, author of Fairfax and His Pride and numerous other books, is making her first visit to this country since the war. She was one of the of the organizers of the American Ambulance Corps, and among her varied activities for the war founded two war workshops in Rome, one for wounded soldiers and the other for making surgical dressings. She also adopted a three-year-old refugee war orphan.
TIMES BOOK REVIEW,
MAY 23, 1920
written works: "Mary Moreland", "Fairfax and His Pride", "The Queen of Karmania", "War Letters of an American Woman", "The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode", "The Broken Bell", "His Love Story", "In Ambush", "The Woman Who Toils", "Philip Longstreth", "The Girl From His Town", "Miss Desmond", "Big Tremaine", "The Sin of George Warrener", "Amanda of the Mill"
"Bessie (Mrs. John) Van Vorst and her sister-in-law Marie Van Vorst were both from New York's privileged class at the turn of the 20th century. The pair worked for several months under assumed names - Bessie as Esther Kelly, Marie as Bell Ballard - to discover first-hand the working conditions, values, and ambitions of factory girls. From a Pittsburgh pickle factory to a Lynn, Massachusetts shoe factory to a cotton mill in South Carolina, the two wrote of their experiences in what was considered a landmark work of social investigation." "The Woman Who Toils"
A book of poems by Marie was also published. "Poems by Marie Van Vorst"
Florence, Italy Dec. 19 [1936]
Private funeral service were held last night for Mrs. Maire Van Vorst, 69, widely-known novelist who lived the latter part of her life in Italy.
She died Wednesday leaving a written request that her death not be publicly announced. The cause of death was given officially as pneumonia.
The body was held in a chapel in Porte Sante Cemetery near Florence awaiting instructions for burial from Gaetano Cagiati her husband from whom she had been separated many years.
Mrs. Van Vorst was born in New York.
-Buffalo New York Currier-Express, Sunday, December 20, 1936
"In the early morning the giant mill grows active. Hear it roar, shattering the stillness for half a mile! It is full now of flesh and blood, of human life and brain and fibre; it is content! Triumphantly during the long day it devours its tithe of body and soul . ... " excerpt from The Woman Who Toils, by Marie Van Vorst.
spouse: Gaetano Cagiati
Gaetano, a widower, was 1st married to Margaret Cooksey, who died [1913] after the birth of their daughter, Margherita
Marie and Gaetano married - October 16, 1916
Notre Dame Cathedral - Paris, France
New York Herald Oct. 18, 1916
Cagiati-Van Vorst
At noon at Notre Dame Marie Van Vorst to Gaetano Cagiati, of Rome. Bride's witnesses Frederick B. Van Vorst, Hughes Leroux; [Le Roux] bridegroom's, Miss Theo Danham, Baron Henri De Luse
1867 Marie Louise Van Vorst (16 dec 1936) poet, novelist, anti-war activist.
adopted son: Frederick John Barth Van Vorst - died in Florence, 1996
Name: Marie Louise Van Vorst
born: 23 November 1867
place of birth: New York
died: 16 December 1936
place of death: Florenz
Profession: American writer, reformer
Clipping:
Marie Van Vorst, now the Countess Cagrati, author of Fairfax and His Pride and numerous other books, is making her first visit to this country since the war. She was one of the of the organizers of the American Ambulance Corps, and among her varied activities for the war founded two war workshops in Rome, one for wounded soldiers and the other for making surgical dressings. She also adopted a three-year-old refugee war orphan.
TIMES BOOK REVIEW,
MAY 23, 1920
written works: "Mary Moreland", "Fairfax and His Pride", "The Queen of Karmania", "War Letters of an American Woman", "The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode", "The Broken Bell", "His Love Story", "In Ambush", "The Woman Who Toils", "Philip Longstreth", "The Girl From His Town", "Miss Desmond", "Big Tremaine", "The Sin of George Warrener", "Amanda of the Mill"
"Bessie (Mrs. John) Van Vorst and her sister-in-law Marie Van Vorst were both from New York's privileged class at the turn of the 20th century. The pair worked for several months under assumed names - Bessie as Esther Kelly, Marie as Bell Ballard - to discover first-hand the working conditions, values, and ambitions of factory girls. From a Pittsburgh pickle factory to a Lynn, Massachusetts shoe factory to a cotton mill in South Carolina, the two wrote of their experiences in what was considered a landmark work of social investigation." "The Woman Who Toils"
A book of poems by Marie was also published. "Poems by Marie Van Vorst"
Florence, Italy Dec. 19 [1936]
Private funeral service were held last night for Mrs. Maire Van Vorst, 69, widely-known novelist who lived the latter part of her life in Italy.
She died Wednesday leaving a written request that her death not be publicly announced. The cause of death was given officially as pneumonia.
The body was held in a chapel in Porte Sante Cemetery near Florence awaiting instructions for burial from Gaetano Cagiati her husband from whom she had been separated many years.
Mrs. Van Vorst was born in New York.
-Buffalo New York Currier-Express, Sunday, December 20, 1936
spouse: Gaetano Cagiati
Gaetano, a widower, was 1st married to Margaret Cooksey, who died [1913] after the birth of their daughter, Margherita
Marie and Gaetano married - October 16, 1916
Notre Dame Cathedral - Paris, France
New York Herald Oct. 18, 1916
Cagiati-Van Vorst
At noon at Notre Dame Marie Van Vorst to Gaetano Cagiati, of Rome. Bride's witnesses Frederick B. Van Vorst, Hughes Leroux; [Le Roux] bridegroom's, Miss Theo Danham, Baron Henri De Luse
1867 Marie Louise Van Vorst (16 dec 1936) poet, novelist, anti-war activist.
adopted son: Frederick John Barth Van Vorst - died in Florence, 1996
Name: Marie Louise Van Vorst
born: 23 November 1867
place of birth: New York
died: 16 December 1936
place of death: Florenz
Profession: American writer, reformer
Clipping:
Marie Van Vorst, now the Countess Cagrati, author of Fairfax and His Pride and numerous other books, is making her first visit to this country since the war. She was one of the of the organizers of the American Ambulance Corps, and among her varied activities for the war founded two war workshops in Rome, one for wounded soldiers and the other for making surgical dressings. She also adopted a three-year-old refugee war orphan.
TIMES BOOK REVIEW,
MAY 23, 1920
written works: "Mary Moreland", "Fairfax and His Pride", "The Queen of Karmania", "War Letters of an American Woman", "The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode", "The Broken Bell", "His Love Story", "In Ambush", "The Woman Who Toils", "Philip Longstreth", "The Girl From His Town", "Miss Desmond", "Big Tremaine", "The Sin of George Warrener", "Amanda of the Mill"
"Bessie (Mrs. John) Van Vorst and her sister-in-law Marie Van Vorst were both from New York's privileged class at the turn of the 20th century. The pair worked for several months under assumed names - Bessie as Esther Kelly, Marie as Bell Ballard - to discover first-hand the working conditions, values, and ambitions of factory girls. From a Pittsburgh pickle factory to a Lynn, Massachusetts shoe factory to a cotton mill in South Carolina, the two wrote of their experiences in what was considered a landmark work of social investigation." "The Woman Who Toils"
A book of poems by Marie was also published. "Poems by Marie Van Vorst"
Florence, Italy Dec. 19 [1936]
Private funeral service were held last night for Mrs. Maire Van Vorst, 69, widely-known novelist who lived the latter part of her life in Italy.
She died Wednesday leaving a written request that her death not be publicly announced. The cause of death was given officially as pneumonia.
The body was held in a chapel in Porte Sante Cemetery near Florence awaiting instructions for burial from Gaetano Cagiati her husband from whom she had been separated many years.
Mrs. Van Vorst was born in New York.
-Buffalo New York Currier-Express, Sunday, December 20, 1936
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