The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk or, the Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed together with The Cadiere Case involving Father Jean-Baptiste Girard

Monk, Maria

Published by Canova Press (1969), London, 1969

About this Item

Some rubbing and abrasions and creasing to spine. Rubbing to edges of covers. Price sticker at corner of front cover. Bookstore rubber stamps on top page edges and on first page. ; xvii, [1], 173, [1 (advertisements)] pages + 4 illustrations on 2 plate leaves. Yellow card covers with illustration in red, black and white. Page dimensions: 184 x 119mm. "One of the most powerful accounts of depravity ever written" - from front cover. "At last available in its full uncensored version is this horrifying account of sexual corruption and torture in a 19th centurynunnery. Here, in the words of an innocent novice nun, are exposed the perverted evils she encountered behind the closed, impenetrable wars of the Dieu Nunnery." - from blurb on rear cover. This edition includes on pages 1391-72 "The Cadiere Case being a true account of the charge brought by Miss Catharine Cadiere against the Jesuit Father Jean-Baptiste Girard at Toulon and including the details of her Seduction, her Possession by Devils, the Abortion she suffered and the Scourgings she received".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk or, the Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed together with The Cadiere Case involving Father Jean-Baptiste Girard
• Publisher: Canova Press (1969), London
• Publication Date: 1969
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket