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Awful disclosures of Maria Monk : illustrated with upwards of forty engravings : and The startling mysteries of a convent exposed.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Monk, Maria, -1850.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monk, Maria, -1850.
- Monk, Maria.
- Monasticism and religious orders for women--Canada--Biography.
- Monasticism and religious orders for women.
- Catholic Church--Controversial literature.
- Catholic Church.
- Nuns.
- Anti-Catholicism.
- United States.
- Canada.
- Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal.
- Anti-Catholicism--United States--Sources.
- Convents--Fiction.
- Convents.
- Nuns--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Biography.
- Genre:
- Controversial literature.
- Fiction.
- Biographies.
- Sources.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 192, 99 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Awful disclosures of Maria Monk
- Startling mysteries of a convent exposed
- Half-title: Awful disclosures of Maria Monk : and The mysteries of a convent exposed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson, 101 Chestnut Street, [between 1854 and 1857?]
- Contents:
- Awful disclosures of Maria Monk
- Thrilling mysteries of a convent revealed.
- Notes:
- According to Philadelphia city directories, T.B. Peterson occupied premises at 102 Chestnut Street from 1854-1857.
- "Thrilling mysteries of a convent revealed" has special title leaf with undated imprint and separate pagination.
- Binding: full patterned green cloth; left board has author's name ("Maria Monk") stamped in gold and rules and floriate designs tooled in blind; gold-tooled spine with geometric border within rules and author's name ("MARIA MONK") at head and crown and braided border within rules at foot;
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on front pastedown.
- Contains:
- Thrilling mysteries of a convent revealed.
- OCLC:
- 985804525
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