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Mary Heaton Vorse was an American author, journalist, and labor activist.
Background
Mary Heaton Vorse O'Brien was born Mary Heaton on October 9, 1874, in New York City. She was the daughter of Hiram Heaton, a retired innkeeper, and Ellen Cordelia Blackman.
Her parents, who both came from old New England families, provided Vorse with an upbringing that was financially comfortable and culturally stimulating, but politically sheltered.
The Heaton family resided in Amherst, Massachussets, but often spent winters in Europe.
Education
Vorse attended private schools, but much of her education came from travel and her mother's tutoring. Vorse hoped to become an artist and studied for several years in Paris and in New York City.
Once she realized that her art would never be more than merely competent, she turned to other outlets.
Career
Mary Heaton and her husband eagerly participated in Bohemian life in New York City's Greenwich Village, but in 1903 they moved to Europe for several years in the hope that cheaper living costs would enable Albert White Vorse to launch a literary career. His ambitions were not fulfilled, but Mary Heaton Vorse discovered that she had a natural talent for writing. Her first triumph came in August 1905, when the Atlantic Monthly published her comic sketch "The Breaking-in of a Yachtman's Wife. "
The story was eventually developed into a novel with the same title and published in 1908. Popular magazines began buying virtually everything Vorse wrote, and she wrote prolifically. Her specialty was the warm, humorous sketch focusing on family life. She became so successful that she was invited to contribute a chapter to The Whole Family (1908), a composite novel featuring the work of twelve writers, including such distinguished figures as William Dean Howells and Henry James.
Upon their return to the United States, the Vorses helped establish the A Club, an experiment in cooperative housing in New York City that attracted liberal intellectuals and writers. In 1907 they bought an old house in Provincetown, Massachussets, which became a vital part of Mary Heaton Vorse's life.
She continued to write light fiction and tied some of her magazine sketches together with episodic frameworks, publishing them as novels. The most representative of these was Vorse's affectionate study of American family life, The Prestons (1918), but her most original and most interesting work of fiction was The Autobiography of an Elderly Woman (1911), which offered a moving portrait of an old woman's struggle to maintain an active and independent life.
Vorse's historical importance, however, stems more from her work on behalf of organized labor than from her literary efforts. She regarded the textile mill strike at Lawrence, Massachussets, in 1912 as the turning point of her life. Her dismay at the deplorable living conditions of workers and their families led to her fervent determination to aid the cause of labor. Vorse's devotion to reform was shared and encouraged by her second husband Joe O'Brien, a journalist.
O'Brien seemed to have been the ideal mate for Mary Heaton Vorse; their homes in Greenwich Village and Provincetown became important centers for the radical intelligentsia. Vorse did much to turn Provincetown into a refuge for writers from New York City. She helped found the Provincetown Players, the repertory company that revitalized the American theater in the early twentieth century. The group's first production was given on her wharf in 1915.
After the Lawrence strike of 1912, she wrote about and often actively participated in most of the labor movement's crucial struggles, including the attempt of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to organize New York City's unemployed in 1914, the miners' strike in Minnesota's Mesabi Range in 1916, the steel strike of 1919, the Passaic, New Jersey, textile strike of 1926 (for which Vorse served as publicity director), the efforts throughout the 1920's and 1930's to organize southern mills and mines, and the major victory of the United Automobile Workers (UAM) in their Flint, Mich. , strike of 1937.
Her writings helped to make organized labor and the right to strike accepted parts of American life. Next to Men and Steel, her most important book about labor was Labor's New Millions (1938), which reflected Vorse's deep admiration for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). She also wrote Strike (1930), a novel about the attempt of the National Textile Workers' Union to organize the textile mills in Gastonia, North Carolina. Her last major article, an expose of union corruption on the New York City waterfront, appeared in Harper's in 1952. Vorse's work took her to Europe frequently, where her writing focused on victims of war, injustice, and political disorder.
While attending international conferences on woman's suffrage and world peace in 1915, Vorse witnessed the effects of World War I. She produced a few propaganda reports for the American government and later wrote about postwar conditions in Europe for the Red Cross, the American Relief Association, and American periodicals.
She also covered the Russian famine of 1921-1922 for the Hearst newspapers. Her other European reporting included accounts of Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the beginnings of World War II, and her service in Italy with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration from 1945 to 1947. Vorse's Footnote to Folly (1935) provided a vivid picture of the events she witnessed in America and Europe from 1912 to 1922.
Quotations:
"The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. "
"English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval. "
"I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married. "
"This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is the enemy of democracy; it is the enemy of all the fruitful and spiritual sides of life. It is our responsibility, as individuals and organizations, to resist this. "
"If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social intercourse, picking our friends the way children do, - because we like them, - spending time enough with them to get some real good out of them. "
"I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work. "
"What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society's business were making people insteadof profits? How much of their creative beauty of spirit would remain unquenched through the years? How much of this responsiveness would follow them through life?"
"When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry. "
Personality
The genial treatment of domestic life that characterized Mary's fiction did not reveal the truth about her marriage, which was often strained. Vorse separated from her husband in 1909. On June 14, 1910, he died suddenly, and the next day Vorse's mother died. Vorse heard of both deaths while crossing the Atlantic.
The next years were marked by Vorse's determination to support her family through freelance writing and her increasing interest in political reform and the labor movement.
The death of her second husband O'Brien in 1915 was a serious blow to Vorse, but she kept busy as a writer and a political activist. Little is known about her relationship with Robert Minor, a political cartoonist and radical, whom Vorse apparently married in 1920 and divorced in 1922.
Vorse aptly described herself as "a woman who in early life got angry because many children lived miserably and died needlessly. " She was associated with various left-wing movements and edited The Masses for a while, but she had little interest in abstract ideological questions. The distinguishing mark of her journalism, which appeared in major newspapers and in magazines such as Harper's, the Nation, the New Republic, and the Advance, was an insistence on recognizing the realities of human suffering.
Her articles contained facts and statistics, but their power stemmed from Vorse's ability to arouse the reader's compassion and indignation.
Her work Time and the Town (1942) contained reminiscences of her beloved Provincetown. These autobiographical writings revealed little about her personal life, but Vorse's courage, dedication, and compassion won the admiration of many. Ill health limited her activities during the final years of her long life. At the time of her death in Provincetown she was virtually forgotten.
Connections
In 1898, Vorse married Albert White Vorse, a newspaperman and aspiring writer with a deep interest in boating and exploration. They had two children.
In 1912, she married Joe O'Brien; they had one child.