Awful Disclosures - Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Maria Monk
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That she had never been in the nunnery.
That she had been expelled from it. That she had fabricated everything that she published. That several pages from her book, published in the New York "Sun," were copied verbatim et literatim from a work published in Portugal above a hundred years before, entitled "The Gates of Hell Opened." That there never was a subterranean passage from the seminary to the nunnery. That there was such a passage in that direction, but that it led to the River St. Lawrence. That the drawings and descriptions of the nunnery, and especially of the veiled department, were wholly unlike the reality, but applied to the Magdalen Asylum of Montreal. That several objects described by her were in the nunnery, but not in those parts of it where she had placed them. (This was said by a person who admitted that he had been lost amidst the numerous and extensive apartments when he made his observations.) That the book was fabricated by certain persons in New York who were named, they being gentlemen of the highest character. That the book was her own production, but written under the instigation of the devil. |
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