Download Awful Disclosures or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed By Maria Monk PDF book free online – From Awful Disclosures or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed By Maria Monk PDF: Lurid and fictional tale of a woman’s escape from a Montreal convent, the publication of which stirred anti-Catholic sentiment and discrimination against immigrants.
The author of this book was a small, slender, uneducated, and persecuted young woman, who sought refuge in our country without a protector; but she showed the resolution and boldness of a heroine, in confronting her powerful enemies in their stronghold, and proved, by the simple force of truth, victorious in the violent conflicts which were waged against her by the Romish hierarchy of America and the popular press of the United States.
The publishers have thought the present an opportune period to place this work again in the hands of American readers, with such information, in a preface, as is necessary to acquaint readers of the present day with the leading circumstances attending and succeeding its original publication.
