The Eleventh Virgin
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Subjects: Abortion -- Fiction
Description: <p>Though <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dorothy-day">Dorothy Day</a> may be best known today for her religious peace activism and her role in founding the Catholic Worker movement, she lived a bohemian youth in the Lower West Side of New York City during the late 1910s and early 1920s. As an editor for radical socialist publications like <i>The Liberator</i> and <i>The Masses</i>, Day was involved in several left-wing causes as well as the Silent Sentinels’ 1917 protest for women’s suffrage in front of the White House.</p>
			<p><i>The Eleventh Virgin</i> is a semi-autobiographical novel told through the eyes of June Henreddy, a young radical journalist whose fictional life closely parallels Day’s own life experiences, including her eventual disillusionment with her bohemian lifestyle. Though later derided by Day as “a very bad book,” <i>The Eleventh Virgin</i> captures a vibrant image of New York’s radical counterculture in the early 20th century and sheds a light on the youthful misadventures of a woman who would eventually be praised by Pope Francis for her dream of “social justice and the rights of persons” during his historic address to a joint session of Congress in 2015.</p>