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Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)

Auteur de Time and the Town: A Provincetown Chronicle

15+ oeuvres 92 utilisateurs 1 Critiques

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Crédit image: Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.

Œuvres de Mary Heaton Vorse

Strike! (1991) 17 exemplaires
Autobiography of an Elderly Woman (1995) 15 exemplaires
Labor's new millions (1938) 7 exemplaires
The Prestons (2007) 2 exemplaires
The very little person 2 exemplaires
The Ninth Man, a Story (1920) 2 exemplaires
The heart's country, 1 exemplaire
A Footnote to Folly (1935) 1 exemplaire
Men and steel 1 exemplaire
The heart's country 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944 (1995) — Contributeur — 438 exemplaires
America's Working Women: A Documentary History 1600 to the Present (1976) — Contributeur, quelques éditions138 exemplaires
The Whole Family: A Novel (1908) — Contributeur — 63 exemplaires
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926 (1996) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires

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Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance
1874-10-11
Date de décès
1966-06-14
Lieu de sépulture
Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA
Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
Lieux de résidence
New York, New York, USA
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Greenwich Village, New York, USA
Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA
Études
Academy Delecluse (Paris)
Art Students' League (New York City)
Professions
labor writer
journalist
author
foreign correspondent
Prix et distinctions
Social Justice Award from the United Automobile Workers (1962)
O'Henry Award
Courte biographie
Libertarian socialist, labor advocate, suffragist, feminist.
Her personal papers are available at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
See also A Footnote to Folly: Reminiscences of Mary Heaton Vorse by Mary Heaton Vorse and Mary Heaton Vorse: The Life of an American Insurgent by Dee Garrison.

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I found this a fascinating read. It is a story, written from the perspective of an elderly woman in 1911, who bemoans existence at the hovering of her adult children. She is a very alive personality, with a message that is still timely. She rebels against the constant interference of her overprotective children, who fret about her health, stuff her with pills and tell her how to behave. One line states: "Every moment of our lives we are preparing for age; carving out the faces that we are to wear," The book was actually the work of 37-year-old Mary Heaton Vorse, Greenwich Village bohemian, a radical journalist, who wrote it in the voice of her mother. The messages and observation are current!… (plus d'informations)
 
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SignoraEdie | May 26, 2008 |

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Œuvres
15
Aussi par
12
Membres
92
Popularité
#202,476
Évaluation
4.0
Critiques
1
ISBN
14

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