Book detail: The Character of a Convent: Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk ; Being 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 ; to which is Added Confirmatory Notes and Affidavits Whereby Maria Monk's Disclosures are Most Fully Proved, and the Hideous Nature of the Conventual System are Exposed is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
This book presents a first-hand account of Maria Monk's time as a novice and black nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery in Montreal. It includes her sufferings over a period of seven years and provides additional evidence in the form of confirmatory notes and affidavits to substantiate her claims about the conditions and practices within the conventual system.
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