 At war's end, she returned to Washington, D.C. and worked at the CIM continuing to press for women's suffrage and equality, before returning to Chile, where she resumed her writing career.Marta Vergara Varas was born on 2 January 1898 in Valparaíso, Chile to Clotilde Varas Valdovinos and Pedro Vergara Silva, the youngest of three sisters.Her early years were spent there on the coast, until the 1906 Valparaíso earthquake destroyed her family home and killed her mother.