Winner of the New England American Studies Association's Lois Rudnick Book Prize (2002)
In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of an Ursuline convent on Mount Benedict in Charlestown, Massachusetts,...
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.