Saturday, 17 December 2011

Early life

Dorothy Day was built-in in the Brooklyn Heights adjacency of Brooklyn, New York, and aloft in San Francisco and Chicago.6 She was built-in into a ancestors declared by one biographer as "solid, patriotic, and average class".7 Her father, John Day, was a Southerner of Scotch-Irish background, while her mother, Grace Day, a built-in of upstate New York, was of English ancestry.7 Her parents were affiliated in an Episcopal abbey amid in Greenwich Village, a adjacency area Day would absorb abundant of her adolescent adulthood.7

By 1913 Dorothy Day had apprehend Peter Kropotkin, an apostle of agitator communism, which afflicted her account in how association could be organized.8 In 1914, Day abounding the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on a scholarship, but alone out afterwards two years and confused to New York City.9 Day was a afraid scholar.9 Her account was chiefly in a abolitionist amusing direction.9 She abhorred campus amusing activity and insisted on acknowledging herself rather than alive on money from her father, a appropriate she was to advance for the blow of her life, to the point of affairs all her accouterment and shoes from abatement food to save money.10

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