MONK, MARIA (c. 18171850)

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MONK, MARIA (c. 18171850) , an adventuress and impostor, who, coming to New

York

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, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
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in 1835, claimed to have escaped from the Montreal nunnery of the Hotel Dieu, concerning which, and the practices prevalent there, she circulated sensational charges in Awful Disclosures by Maria Monk (1836). Over 200,000 copies of this book and a sequel were sold, and a violent

anti

ANTI, or CAMPA

-Catholic agitation resulted. She was finally exposed as a woman of bad

character

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

, and her story proved to be absolutely false, but not until she had deceived many

people

PEOPLE

of good

standing

STANDING

.

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