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Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.


Maria Monk


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Monk’s tale was clearly modeled on the gothic novels that were popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries a literary genre that had already been used to stoke anti-Catholic sentiments in such works as Denis Diderot's La Religieuse. Atmosphere of anti-Catholic sensationalism
Monk’s book was publiMaria Monkd in an American atmosphere of anti-Catholic hostility (partly fueled by early 19th-century Irish and German Catholic immigration to the U. Maria Monk’s book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk or The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed was publiMaria Monkd in January 1836.

The Black Nunnery or Convent of Sister Bourgeoise. Maria Monk’s book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk or The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed was publiMaria Monkd in January 1836. The priests supposedly entered the convent through a secret tunnel.

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