Thomas H. O'Connor University Historian, Boston College, and author of Boston Catholics Fire Roses is an extremely well-written, carefully researched, and utterly absorbing account of the nativist attack on the Ursuline convent in Nancy Schultz has peeled away the layers surrounding the scandalous event to reveal the anti-Catholic bigotry of a Boston community where reaction against an educated /5(17). · Winner of the New England American Studies Association's Lois Rudnick Book Prize ()In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of , a Author: Nancy Lusignan Schultz. What we know about the burning of the Charlestown convent and school, is that on Aug a group of men with painted faces, burned the convent and school to the ground. There are reports that 2,, spectators including a number of fire companies watched the www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins.
Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, / Edition 1 available in Paperback. faded mysteriously into www.doorway.ru Lusignan Schultz brings alive this forgotten event, focusing her probing lens on a time when independent, educated women were feared as much as immigrants and Catholics, and anti-Papist diatribes were the. In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of , a woman clawed her way over the wall of a Roman Catholic convent near Boston, Massachusetts and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, rumors began swirling through the Yankee community and in the press that she was being held at the convent against her. Fire Roses. The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, Nancy Lusignan Schultz The Free Press. In Fire Roses, Nancy Schultz brings alive this forgotten moment, shedding light on one of the darkest incidents of religious persecution to be recorded in the New World. It was a time when independent, educated women were feared as much as.
Fire Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, by. Nancy Lusignan Schultz. · Rating details · 37 ratings · 7 reviews. Winner of the New England American Studies Association's Lois Rudnick Book Prize ()In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of , a woman clawed her way over the wall of an Ursuline convent on Mount Benedict in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. What we know about the burning of the Charlestown convent and school, is that on Aug a group of men with painted faces, burned the convent and school to the ground. There are reports that 2,, spectators including a number of fire companies watched the fire. On Aug the men returned to destroy the gardens, orchards and fences. Fire and Roses is a meticulously researched, stylishly written account of one of Boston's notorious Catholic-Protestant clashes, which resulted in the burning of an Ursuline convent. Lusignan Schultz tells the story with an emphasis on character, especially that of Mother St. George, or Mary Anne Moffett, the Prioress of the convent.
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