A Jazz Age novel of protest, love, and crisis, by a woman Pope Francis has compared to Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. *** Before founding the Catholic Worker movement, before receiving recognition as a possible saint and becoming an acknowledged Servant of God in the Catholic Church, Dorothy Day wrote. She worked as a journalist and she wrote novels and in Hollywood for the "talkies." Here, in her autobiographical debut novel The Eleventh Virgin, readers can get a deeper look into the soul of a woman who dedicated her life to humankind, especially those individuals who might be toughest to love. *** Originally published in 1924, The Eleventh Virgin follows the existential and romantic seeking of June, an idealist looking for a mission, community, and meaning in 1920s New York City, in Washington, D.C., in the midst of suffragist protests, and as a nurse in a hospital ward during the influenza epidemic. When Dick, a dashing cameraman, sailor, and newspaperman, comes into her life, she finds herself in love . . . and in crisis.