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MARIA MONK (c. 1817—1850)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 724 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONK (c. 1817—1850)  , an adventuress and impostor, who, coming to New
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York in 1835, claimed to have escaped from the
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Montreal nunnery of the Hotel Dieu, concerning which, and the practices prevalent there, she circulated sensational charges in Awful Disclosures by Maria
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Monk (1836) . Over 200,000 copies of this
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book and a sequel were sold, and a violent
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anti-
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Catholic agitation resulted . She was finally exposed as a woman of
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bad
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character, and her
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story proved to be absolutely false, but not until she had deceived many
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people of
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good
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standing .

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