The Woman Who Toils

Marie Van Vorst, born in 1867, was an American novelist, journalist, and social reformer known for her proactive engagement with social issues of her time, particularly the plight of working-class women. Van Vorst's contributions to literature and social thought are epitomized in her best-known work, 'The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experience of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls' (1903), which she ...