Schultz, Nancy Lusignan., The Free Press, 2000, c2000, 1st Edition, 1st printing, boards & cloth (hard cover), remainder mark on bottom edge o/w near fine with near fine dj (one tear at fold), 317 pp with appendix, notes & index, B&W illus., tall 8vo, ISBN: 0684856859, 'One of the darkest incidents of religious persecution to be recorded in the New World', Boston; Local History; True Crime; Religion; Sociology.

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Title

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

Publisher

The Free Press

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

ISBN 10

0684856859

ISBN 13

9780684856858

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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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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