Author: Alfred Small MansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Catalog ... of the American Historical Library, Collection of Alfred S. Manson, Boston, Mass
Author: Alfred Small MansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Nun; Or, Six Months' Residence in a Convent
Author: Rebecca Theresa REEDPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Nun; Or, Six Month's Residence in a Convent
Author: Rebecca Theresa ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ex-nuns
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Veil of Fear
Author: Rebecca Theresa ReedPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557531346
Category : Ex-nuns
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
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.
Six Months in a Convent, Or, the Narrative of R. T. Reed ... With Some Preliminary Suggestions by the Committee of Publication Written by A. B. Muzzey?
Author: Rebecca Theresa REEDPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Narrative of Six Months' Residence in a Convent
Author: Rebecca Theresa ReedPublisher:
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Category : Convents
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk & the Nun; Or, Six Months' Residence in a Convent
Author: Maria MonkPublisher:
ISBN: 9781910375594
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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 Hotel 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. Six Months in a Convent, published in the previous year to Awful Disclosures, although less lurid in content, was also a source of great controversy. Reed depicted the harsh discipline and practice of deceit in an Ursuline convent on Mount Benedict, Charlestown, Massachusetts, from which she eventually made an escape. The accusations made against the Superior and clergy were flatly denied in her case too, but the controversy refused to die. Some held Reed at least partly responsible for the convent being attacked and burned down by a mob. In addition to the texts of both books is much further material, including extracts from public journals relating to Maria Monk, additional information on what happened after her alleged escape, the case in her favour, and testimony of others in confirmation of her claims. There is also a supplement to Rebecca Reed's account. Among the refutations of Awful Disclosures was The True History of Maria Monk (ISBN: 978-1910375563), first published by the Catholic Truth Society in the late 19th Century.
Narrative of Six Months Residence in a Convent
Author: Rebecca Theresa ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Saints and Sinners in Queen Victoria's Courts
Author: Tom ZanielloPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476680817
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This chronicle of ten controversial mid-Victorian trials features brother versus brother, aristocrats fighting commoners, an imposter to a family's fortune, and an ex-priest suing his ex-wife, a nun. Most of these trials--never before analyzed in depth--assailed a culture that frowned upon public displays of bad taste, revealing fault lines in what is traditionally seen as a moral and regimented society. The author examines religious scandals, embarrassments about shaky family trees, and even arguments about which architecture is most likely to convert people from one faith to another.
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