Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The hidden secrets of a nun's life in a convent exposed! : illustrated with upwards of forty engravings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monk, Maria, -1850.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monk, Maria, -1850.

Monk, Maria.

Monasticism and religious orders for women--Canada--Biography.

Monasticism and religious orders for women.

Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal.

Anti-Catholicism--United States--Sources.

Anti-Catholicism.

Nuns--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.

Nuns.

United States.

Canada.

Genre:

Biographies.

Sources.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Other Title:

Awful disclosures of Maria Monk

Hidden secrets of a nun's life in a convent exposed!

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson, 101 Chestnut Street, [between 1854 and 1857?]

Notes:

According to Philadelphia city directories, T.B. Peterson occupied premises at 102 Chestnut Street from 1854-1857.

Binding: full green cloth; left board ruled in blind with narrow panel of blind-stamped ornaments above panel containing gilt title ("AWFUL DISCLOSURES OF MARIA MONK") above panel containing color illustration (a nun kneeling before a priest standing before an altar, with a standing nun and a kneeling altar boy with thurible in the background) flanked by two blind-stamped ornaments; title ("MARIA MONK") stamped in gold on spine and surrounded by blind-stamped ornaments; right board ruled in blind with blind-stamped illustration (two birds flying through a clouded sky above a flowering branch)

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

OCLC:

985843921