The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk
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The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk
One of the most powerful accounts of depravity ever written
Maria Monk was a Canadian women who claimed to have spent time in a covent, theHotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal. She claimed that that she and her sisters (in Christ) were fucking priests in the neighboring seminary.
A claim like this would be a huge scandal even now. It was astounding in early 19th centjury America. Her claims were greatly benefited by American anti-Catholicism.
The Museum of Hoaxes says:
... A rumor emerged that she had actually been a prostitute in Montreal, and that the years she claimed to have spent in a convent were actually spent in the Magdalen Asylum for Wayward Girls. She was later arrested for picking the pocket of a man who had paid her for sex, and she died in prison on Welfare Island, New York City, in 1849. The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, despite having been shown to be false, remained in print until well into the twentieth century.
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