Awful Disclosures: A Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed - Paperback

by Maria Monk (Author)

Awful Disclosures

A Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed

By Maria Monk

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.