Women / Persons ~ P14898
Maria Monk
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 27 June 1816 – summer of 1849
Types:
- Writer, Nonfiction
Note: Wrote Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed (1836), which exposed the sexual abuse that nuns suffered and infanticide by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal