Miss Bunkley's Book
Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Emmitsburg (Md.)
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Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Emmitsburg (Md.)
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Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,34 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Josephine M. BUNKLEY
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 1855
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Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781331852100
Excerpt from The Testimony of an Escaped Novice From the Sisterhood of St. Joseph, Emmettsburg, Maryland, the Mother-House of the Sisters of Charity in the United States The history of this book is almost as remarkable as that of its subject. Shortly after Miss Bunkley had escaped from St. Joseph's in the manner she has stated in her narrative, the Superior of that convent published a defamatory letter against her. This decided Miss Bunkley not only to defend herself, but also to give an exhibition of convent life, as it had come under her observation, for the information and warning of her American countrymen; and, in coming to this determination, she did not act on her own judgment only, but availed herself of the advice of judicious friends, who believed that it was a sacred duty to the American community and the best interests of society to do so. In accordance with this resolution, she wrote a narrative of what she had seen and heard while in the institution of St. Joseph, and committed the same for revision, with other papers bearing on the subject, to a gentleman in Norfolk, Virginia, the city of her father's residence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 1855
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Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781374292796
Author : Josephine M. BUNKLEY
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780530332024
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Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Convents
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Author : Cassandra L. Yacovazzi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190881011
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.