Maria Monk Quotes
I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time.
Citations
Monk, Maria. Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk. Howe & Bates, 1836, p. 11.
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Maria Monk was a Canadian woman whose book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed (1836) claimed to expose systematic sexual abuse of nuns and infanticide of the resulting children by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal. The book became a best-seller.