(Anti-Catholic - Charlestown Riots.) An Answer to Six Months in a Convent, Exposing Its Falsehoods and Manifold Absurdities. By the Lady Superior, with some preliminary remarks.
first edition
1835 · Boston
Boston: J.H. Eastburn, 1835. Book. 8vo, stitched. Pp xxxvii, (3), 66. Lacking wrappers, dusty, small blank corner piece of title chipped. First edition, by the head of the Ursuline convent in Charlestown, Mass. A detailed refutation of Six Months, the sensational and largely fictional account of convent abuse which sparked the notorious Charlestown riot and burning of the convent, and fed anti-Popery sentiment throughout the country. Imprints 33103.. (Inventory #: 1077)