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9780684856858

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780684856858

  • ISBN10:

    0684856859

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-10-01
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Summary

Packed with fascinating characters and hair-raising drama, this true story of a 19th century convent destroyed by a rampaging mob documents one of the worst episodes of religious persecution in American history. Photos.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Principal Characters ix
Prologue 1(2)
The Seed Is Planted
3(34)
Mount Benedict Blooms
37(32)
Convent Secrets and the Early Years
Charlestown in Full Flower
69(38)
Education and Convent Life
A Deadly Miasma
107(40)
Cemeteries, Cholera, and Catholicism
The Vine Uprooted
147(44)
1834: A Year of Heartbreaks
The Lost Garden
191(40)
Indictments and Trial
The Ashes Scatter
231(38)
Epilogue 269(10)
Appendix: Partial List of Students 279(2)
Notes 281(24)
Acknowledgments 305(4)
Illustration Credits 309(2)
Index 311

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