Fire and Roses
The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
Published on 11. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
317 pages
978-1-55553-514-8 (ISBN)
Description
The shocking story of the night an angry mob burned down a quiet Massachusetts convent -- and the larger story of anti-Papist and anti-feminist sentiment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
17 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55553-514-8 (9781555535148)
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Person
Nancy Lusignan Schultz is Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in English at Salem State College. She is the editor of two anthologies, Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture and Veil of Fear: Nineteenth-Century Convent Tales. She lives in Swampscott, Massachusetts.