Provides an account of the burning of a Charlestown convent in 1834 by an angry mob inflamed by an organized campaign of anti-Catholic rhetoric. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

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Title: Fire & Roses
Publisher: Free Press
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0684856859
ISBN 13: 9780684856858
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Book Type: Book

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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.

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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.

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