Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
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Language: English
Published by The Free Press, 2000
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NEW ====== "The burning of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1834 is one of the high points of anti-Catholic bigotry in the United States ".
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- Title
- Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
- Author
- Schultz, Nancy Lusignan
- Publisher
- The Free Press
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0684856859
- ISBN 13
- 9780684856858
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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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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