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Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk & The Nun; or, Six Months' Residence in a Convent

Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk & The Nun; or, Six Months' Residence in a Convent

Reed, Rebecca Theresa
Monk, Maria

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Religion General

ISBN10: 1910375594
ISBN13: 9781910375594
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 25 2017
Pages: 380
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This volume comprises two books: Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk and The Nun; or, Six Months' Residence in a Convent by Rebecca Theresa Reed. The former caused a sensation when it was first published in 1836 because Maria Monk claimed to have been a nun in the Hôtel Dieu convent in Montreal where she said she had witnessed torture, rape and murder, including infanticide. She alleged that the children born to nuns as a result of liaisons with priests were baptised, suffocated, and then disposed of in a pit in the nunnery cellar. The accusations were hotly contested and it was stated that Monk had never been a nun at the convent, but rather that she was a prostitute and insane into the bargain. Two inspections were made of the convent which concluded that Monk had never been there, but her adherents insisted that both were ex parte and that the results had been fudged. Arguments over the genuineness of Maria Monk's disclosures continued to rage for a considerable time and demand for her book was such that numerous editions were produced over the course of the next hundred years.

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