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The duty of delight : the diaries of Dorothy Day / edited by Robert Ellsberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholics--United States--Diaries.
- Catholics.
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980--Diaries.
- Day, Dorothy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (703 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Day (1897-1980) began her diaries in 1934, shortly after co-founding the Catholic Worker movement, and kept them up until shortly before she died. Ellsberg, who has worked for the Catholic Workers and edited Day's writing, was invited to edit them as soon as they were unsealed, as per her wishes, in November 2005. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- short title The Duty of Delight; frontispiece Dorothy Day at Maryfarm, Easton, PA, ca. 1937; title page The Duty of Delight The Diaries of Dorothy Day; copyright page; epigram; table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Chronology; PART I The Thirties; PART II The Forties; PART III The Fifties; PART IV The Sixties; PART V The Seventies; PART VI The Final Diary: 1980; index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-87462-348-0
- OCLC:
- 609853245
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