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

Nancy Lusignan Schultz

ISBN 10: 0684856859 / ISBN 13: 9780684856858

Published by Free Press, 2000

About this Item

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

Seller Inventory # BSM.189CJ

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
• Publisher: Free Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684856859
• ISBN 13: 9780684856858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

About this title

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.