10 Facts About Maria Monk

Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk was published in January 1836.

One possible result of this alleged injury could be that Maria Monk might have been manipulated, and might not be able to distinguish between fact and fantasy.

Maria Monk's book was published in an American atmosphere of anti-Catholic hostility and followed the 1834 Ursuline Convent Riots near Boston.

Maria Monk claimed that she had lived in the convent for seven years, became pregnant, and fled because she did not want her baby destroyed.

Maria Monk told her story to a Protestant minister, Rev John Jay Slocum, in New York, who encouraged her to repeat it to a wider audience.

Stone returned to New York, interviewed Maria Monk and concluded that she had never been in the convent.

Stone's team found no evidence that Maria Monk had ever lived in the convent.

The writers later sued each other for a share of the considerable profits, while Maria Monk was left destitute.

Maria Monk traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a lover whom historians often identify as Graham Maria Monk.

Maria Monk penned a sequel, Further Disclosures of Maria Monk.