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AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO A MAGAZINE EDITOR ABOUT HER NONFICTION WORK "LETTERS TO WOMEN IN LOVE" SIGNED BY AMERICAN WRITER BESSIE VAN VORST.
Published by New York: October 7, circa [1906]. [1906]., 1906
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very good. - Autograph letter penned in black ink and filling both sides of an approximately 8 inch high by 5 inch wide sheet of cream-colored note paper. Signed "B. van Vorst". The right edge of the paper is roughed with a narrow strip out of its lower half. Folded once for mailing. Very good. van Vorst sends back the manuscript [not present] of her "Letters to Women in Love" [1906] to an editor who wants to cut it to fit the word count required for his journal: 'We have said nothing about price, but I know you pay well and I shall be glad to consider your proposition about the MS. once you have determined the amount of 'amputation' necessary." Bessie van Vorst, who wrote under her married name "Mrs. John van Vorst", collaborated with her first husband's sister Marie van Vorst. Her second book-length publication "The Woman Who Toils" [1903] was co-written with Marie and immediately brought them to public attention. To research this muckraking expose of the working conditions, values and aspirations of female wage earners, the two upper-middle-class women worked for several months in various mills and factories. Despite her sympathy for her fellow workers, Bessie van Vorst was no advocate of equal pay for men and women and indeed was a strident propagandist for the domestic duties of women as the wives and mothers of the nation. "Letters to Women in Love" counsels women on effective means of safeguarding the family hearth. The success of marriage, of the family as a viable unit and, ultimately, the future well-being of the nation, depend, according to van Vorst, on women's ability to ameliorate, compromise and cajole.
