Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834

Nancy Lusignan Schultz

ISBN 10: 0684856859 / ISBN 13: 9780684856858

Published by Free Press (edition ), 2000

About this Item

With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 0684856859-8-1-29

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
• Publisher: Free Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684856859
• ISBN 13: 9780684856858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

A tragic and largely forgotten tale of religious persecution is retold in this chilling account of the burning of a Charlestown convent in 1834 by an angry mob inflamed by an organized campaign of anti-Catholic rhetoric. 20,000 first printing.

About the Author

Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Ph.D., is the editor of two anthologies, Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture and Veil of Fear: Nineteenth-Century Convent Tales. She is Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in English at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts.