IV-"The Woman That Toils" - Marie van Vorst - Everybody's Magazine

"Being the Experiences of a Literary Woman as a Working Girl"

"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 . ... "

Description:Marie van Vorst's experiences posing as a worker in a southern mill for a five-part series in Everybody's Magazine, written with her sister-in-law, Bessie van Vorst.

Rights: Public domain.

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Image of Marie van Vorst posing as a southern mill worker for a series she cowrote for Everybody's Magazine.