![]() ![]() ![]() In 1914, Day went to university on her own, to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but left after two years to return to New York City. Her family moved often and she grew up in San Francisco and Chicago. She spends time talking about her family and their religious practices, introducing neighbors and family life. Part One, "Searching," introduces her childhood and adolescence along with her interest in religion which began at a very early age. She also argues throughout the book that the "long loneliness" is universal in human experience and can only be cured by community life.ĭay's autobiography is divided into three broad sections. The "long loneliness" is a state of loneliness Day often experienced as a child and young adult, which only her conversion to Roman Catholicism and experience in communities of the poor could cure. She is famous not only for her writing and social activism but for founding the newspaper The Catholic Worker with her friend Peter Maurin, which advocated nonviolence, simple living, and aid for the poor. The Long Loneliness is the autobiography of Dorothy Day (1891-1980) who was a devout convert to Catholicism, anarchist, distributivist, social activist and American journalist. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |