Background
Vorst, Marie Van was born on November 23, 1867 in New York, New York, United States. Daughter of Honorary Hooper C. (judge Supreme Court) and Josephine (Treat) Vorst.
Vorst, Marie Van was born on November 23, 1867 in New York, New York, United States. Daughter of Honorary Hooper C. (judge Supreme Court) and Josephine (Treat) Vorst.
Educated by private tutors.
Adopted son, Frederick John. Contributor of verse and fiction to magazines, New York Sun, Evening Post, et cetera 1st contribution was verse in Scribner’s Magazine, printed 1893.
Sent by Harper & Brothers to write the “Rivers of the Old World,” Tiber, 1907, Nile, 1908, Danube, and Seine, 1909.
Author: Bagsby’s Daughter (with sister, Bessie Van Vorst), 1901. The Woman Who Toils (with same), 1903.
Amanda of the Mill, 1905. In Ambush, 1909; First Love, 1910.
His Love Story, 1913.
Store-Tremaine, 1918. Fairfax and His Pride, 1920. Traditions, 1921; Queen of Karmania, 1922.
Sunrise, 1924.
Good Night Ladies (story of New York in 1861). Gardenia, 1932; Saint Peter Burnes Oates, 1932. Saint Mary Magdelen di Pazzi (London), 1932.
Began to paint, 1922.
Exhibited, Sterner Galleries, New York, 1923, Bernheim, Paris, 1924.
Married Gaetano Cagiati, of Rome, Italy, October 1916.