Book description
Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk- In a Narrative of her sufferings,
during a residence of five years as a novice, and two years as a black
nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal. Includes additional
infomation and confirmation.. To which is added, the Nun or six months'
residence in a convent- by Rebecca Theresa Reed. PREFACE. It is hoped
that the reader of the ensuing narrative will not suppose that it is a
fiction, or that the scenes and persons that I have delineated, had not
a real existence. It is also desired, that the author of this volume may
be regarded not as a voluntary participator in the very guilty
transactions which are described but receive sympathy for the trials
which she has endured, and the peculiar situation in which her past
experience, and escape from the power of the Superior of the Hotel Dieu
Nunnery, at Montreal, and the snares of ,the Roman Priests in Canada,
have left her. My feelings are frequently distressed and agitated by the
recollection of what I have passed through, and by night and day I have
little peace of mind, and few periods of calm and pleasing rccollection.
Futurity also appears uncertain. I know not what reception this little
work may meet with, and what will be the effect of its publication here
or in Canada, among strangers, friends, or enemies. I have given the
world the truth, so far as I have gone, on subjects of which I am told
they are generally ignorant and I feel perfect confidence, that any
facts which may yet be discovered, will confirm my words whenever they
can be obtained.
