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. With additional information, and confirmation. To which is added, The nun; or, Six months residence in a convent by Rebecca Theresa Reed

Published by London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1875

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Monk, Maria. 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. With additional information, and confirmation. To which is added, The nun; or, Six months residence in a convent by Rebecca Theresa Reed. London: Printed for the Booksellers, s.d. [1875, date of this edition in the British Library]. Hardback, Good. Blue cloth, bumped to corners and spine with embossed decoration in black and gilt lettering to front and spine. Black floral decoration to revserse which has multiple stain marks. Binding good, starting to weaken at front gutter, slight forward lean. Mild tanning to endpapers. Frontispiece b/w illustration. 384pp., b/w illustrations. Mild tanning to edges of page block. Contents clean and bright. Maria Monk (June 27, 1816 summer of 1849) was a Canadian woman whose book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun s Life in a Convent Exposed (1836) claimed to expose systematic sexual abuse of nuns and infanticide of the resulting children by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal. The book is considered by scholars to be an anti-Catholic hoax. Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk was published in January 1836. In it, Monk claimed that nuns of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph of the Montreal convent of the Hôtel-Dieu, whom she called "the Black Nuns", were forced to have sex with the priests in the seminary next door. The priests supposedly entered the convent through a secret tunnel. If the sexual union produced a baby, it was baptized and then strangled and dumped into a lime pit in the basement. Uncooperative nuns disappeared. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…

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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. With additional information, and confirmation. To which is added, The nun; or, Six months residence in a convent by Rebecca Theresa Reed
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Monk, Maria [and] Reed, Rebecca Theresa
Publisher
London: Printed for the Booksellers
Publication year
1875
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Good
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Hardcover
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RightWayup Books is a small, independent bookseller trading across all subjects, especially literature, poetry and theology. It is the online arm of Framlingham Bookshop, a tiny but well-stocked shop in the market town of Framlingham Suffolk, also home to Ed Sheeran, The Detectorists and a famous castle.

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