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We’ve reached the last post in the portion of this countdown devoted to the creepy Gothic books beloved by the women working in 19th-century mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. Today’s entry is the controversial autobiography of Maria Monk (1836).

Read it here.

Quote: We all believed in ghosts.

Image of the frontispiece and title page of The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk. The artwork depicts a nun seeming to confess to a priest.

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