A Footnote to Folly: Reminiscences of Mary Heaton Vorse

by Mary Heaton Vorse

407 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Libertarian socialist, labor advocate, suffragist, feminist.

Her personal papers are available at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. www.reuther.wayne.edu

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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Heaton_Vorse
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAvorse.htm
www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/vorse/index.html
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Credit: Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.

Reviews

[Becky Bradway · Rating 4 out of 5]

An intrepid female reporter who covered Progressive and Socialist events from the 1910's to the 1940's. I was doing research on strikes, and she writes a particularly important chapter as a witness to the arrest and beating of women strikers and their children in Lawrence, MA, 1912. It's a famous piece. Overall, it's a good look at the life of an assertive reporter who was devoted to issues of women's rights and social justice.