The Escaped Nun
Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Anti-Catholicism
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Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Anti-Catholicism
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Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 2012-01
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ISBN : 9781407726939
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Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Convents
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Author : Josephine M Bunkley
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
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ISBN : 9781014209672
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Author : JOSEPHINE M. BUNKLEY
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2018
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ISBN : 9781033682999
Author : Josephine M. Bunkley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780484802024
Excerpt from The Escaped Nun, or Disclosures of Convent Life: And the Confessions of a Sister of Charity; Giving a More Minute Detail of Their Inner Life and a Bolder Revelation of the Mysteries and Secrets of Nunneries Than Have Ever Before Been Submitted to the American Public Elucidations of facts, respecting the interior life and practices of those mysterious establishments called N unneries or Convents, are of the utmost importance to the Protest ants of America at this particular time, because now the struggle to establish these and other remnants of the dark ages in America is going on; therefore the public attention is called to them, and any information is anxiously sought which will throw light upon the subject. 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 : Cassandra L. Yacovazzi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 24,59 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.
Author : Edward Hendrie
Publisher : Edward Hendrie
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2015-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1943056005
There has probably not been a person more maligned by the powerful forces of the Roman Catholic Church than Maria Monk. In 1836 she published the famous book, Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. In that book, she told of murder, rape, and torture behind the walls of the cloistered nunnery. Because the evidence was verifiably true, the Catholic hierarchy found it necessary to fabricate evidence and suborn perjury in an attempt to destroy the credibility of Maria Monk. The Catholic Church has kept up the character assassination of Maria Monk now for over 175 years. Edward Hendrie has examined the evidence and set it forth for the readers to decide for themselves whether Maria Monk was an impostor or a brave victim. An objective view of the evidence leads to the ineluctable conclusion that Maria Monk told the truth about what happened behind the walls of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. The Roman Catholic Church, which is the most powerful religious and political organization in the world, has engaged in an unceasing campaign of vilification against Maria Monk. Its crusade against Maria Monk, however, can only affect the opinion of the uninformed. It cannot change the evidence. The evidence speaks clearly to those who will look at the case objectively. The evidence reveals that the much maligned Maria Monk was a reliable witness who made awful but accurate disclosures about life in a cloistered nunnery.
Author : Bigelow Library Association, Clinton, Mass
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Catalogs
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Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 1856
Category : American literature
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