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

Schultz, Nancy Lusignan

ISBN 10: 0684856859 / ISBN 13: 9780684856858

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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fire and 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: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • History USA/Americana/more

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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.