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Escaped nuns : true womanhood and the campaign against convents in antebellum America /

"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...

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Main Author: Yacovazzi, Cassandra L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Monk, Maria, > -1850.
Monk, Maria, > -1850
Anti-Catholicism > United States > History > 19th century.
Women > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women and religion > United States > History > 19th century.
Anticatholicisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Femmes et religion > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
Anti-Catholicism
Women and religion
Women > Social conditions
United States
1800-1899
Electronic books.
History
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