Le "roman" de Maria Monk

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Author/collaborator
Title
Le "roman" de Maria Monk
Abstract
Maria Monk (1816-1849), born in Dorchester, now part of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, asserted in her purportedly autobiographical 1836 book titled "Awful Disclosures at the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal" that she had been a nun at Montreal's Hotêl Dieu Convent and had been forced by her superior to kill a companion nun who refused to submit to the sexual demands of the priests at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice. She also claimed that children born to the nuns as a result of the liaisons with the priests were immediately baptized and then strangled. Some 300,000 copies of Awful Disclosures were sold before Monk was discredited.
Publication
La revue de l'Université Laval
Volume
Vol. 8
Pages
569-580
Date
1953-1954
Language
fr
Citation
Dufebvre, Bernard. “Le ‘roman’ de Maria Monk.” La revue de l’Université Laval Vol. 8 (1954 1953): 569–580.
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