Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, by Maria Monk

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Awful Disclosures Of Maria Monk, as Exhibited an 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, by Maria Monk;

Published 1836 in London. Made and printed in Great Britain by Truslove & Bray, Ltd., West Norwood, S.E.

The 1836 book "Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk", or, "The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed" claimed to expose systematic sexual abuse of nuns by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal, and infanticide of the resulting children. The book was a best-seller in its time, and the issue of nun sexual exploitation remains relevant today as evidenced by 2019 admissions by Pope Francis. See BBC news at https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47134033

On-line scan located at
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/awful-disclosures-of-maria-monk-1836

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An excerpt of this is in this collection: https://librivox.org/frauds-forgeries-and-fake-news-collection-by-various/

The text used there was this one: https://archive.org/details/awfuldisclosure00slocgoog