Download or read book Awful Disclosures written by Maria Monk and published by New-York : M. Monk. This book was released on 1836 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maria Monk s Daughter An Autobiography written by Lizzie Saint John ECKEL and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maria Monk s Daughter written by Lizzie St. John Eckel Harper and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Monk Woman s Daughter written by Susan Storer Clark and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My mother said she was a nun. That may have been a lie." So begins the eye-opening and entertaining tale of Vera St. John's chaotic upbringing amid the turbulence of nineteenth-century urban America. Sometimes rollicking and sometimes terrifying, Vera's story features a fascinating array of characters: the troubled woman who bore her, the charming Irishman she marries, the African-American freedman struggling to rescue his wife from slavery, the beautiful high-priced prostitute she befriends, the washerwoman who stands by her in a quixotic quest. From the squalid streets of 1840s New York to the devastation of post-Civil War Memphis, Vera threads her way through the powerful conflicts of American history to find where she belongs. Along the way, she discovers the nature of power and the true meaning of freedom. The Monk Woman's Daughter was a Distinguished Favorite in the New York City Big Book Awards, and a finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Nancy Pearl Contest.
Download or read book Veil of Fear written by Rebecca Theresa Reed and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk may not be well-known authors today, but these women were publishing sensations in nineteenth-century America. Their lurid tales of life in two North American convents, one in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and the other in Montreal, Canada, sold more than one-half million copies. Reed escaped from the Ursuline convent in Charlestown in 1832. Her dramatic renditions of Roman Catholic ritual practice helped spark a night of violence that resulted in the convent being burned to the ground by an angry mob. Reed's published narrative, Six Months in a Convent, appeared just as the trials of the rioters were ending in 1835, and became an instant literary success. Monk's supporters capitalized on the lucrative market in anti-Catholic literature, by bringing out the pseudo-pornographic Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery in 1836. Monk, who claimed her infant daughter had been fathered by a Catholic priest, was in fact a Montreal prostitute rather than a nun. She enjoyed the life of a literary star in New York before her hoax was uncovered. These two narratives are now available for the first time in a single paperback edition. Nancy Lusignan Schultz's introduction provides a fascinating glimpse into the history, development, and marketing of these phenomenal best-sellers. The convent tales by Reed and Monk are classics that must be read by those interested in American studies, popular culture, social and religious history, literature, and women's studies.
Download or read book The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Awful disclosures of Maria Monk a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal written by Maria Monk and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confirmation of Maria Monk s disclosures concerning the Hotel Dieu nunnery of Montreal preceded by a Reply to the priests book To which is added further disclosures by M Monk written by J J. Slocum and published by London : J.S. Hodson. This book was released on 1837 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Confirmation of Maria Monk s Disclosures concerning the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal Preceded by a reply to the Priests Book By J J Slocum To which is added further disclosures by Maria Monk and account of her visit to Nun s Island written by Maria MONK and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Awful disclosures of Maria Monk as exhibited in a narrative of her residence of five years as a novice and two years as a black nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal written by Maria MONK and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk as Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal written by Maria Monk and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Character of a Convent Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk Being a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal written by Maria Monk and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Further Disclosures by Maria Monk concerning the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal also her visit to Nun s Island and disclosures concerning that secret retreat Preceded by a reply to the Priests book by J J Slocum written by Maria MONK and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Escaped Nuns written by Cassandra L. Yacovazzi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just five weeks after its publication in January 1836, Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery, billed as an escaped nun's shocking exposé of convent life, had already sold more than 20,000 copies. The book detailed gothic-style horror stories of licentious priests and abusive mothers superior, tortured nuns and novices, and infanticide. By the time the book was revealed to be a fiction and the author, Maria Monk, an imposter, it had already become one of the nineteenth century's best-selling books. In antebellum America only one book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, outsold it. The success of Monk's book was no fluke, but rather a part of a larger phenomenon of anti-Catholic propaganda, riots, and nativist politics. The secrecy of convents stood as an oblique justification for suspicion of Catholics and the campaigns against them, which were intimately connected with cultural concerns regarding reform, religion, immigration, and, in particular, the role of women in the Republic. At a time when the term "female virtue" pervaded popular rhetoric, the image of the veiled nun represented a threat to the established American ideal of womanhood. Unable to marry, she was instead a captive of a foreign foe, a fallen woman, a white slave, and a foolish virgin. In the first half of the nineteenth century, ministers, vigilantes, politicians, and writers--male and female--forged this image of the nun, locking arms against convents. The result was a far-reaching antebellum movement that would shape perceptions of nuns, and women more broadly, in America.
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