In August 1835, Isabella Mills received a strange visit at her home in
Montreal. A man whom she had never seen before but who was “decently
dressed,” as she’d report later, told her that he had come to the city
with her daughter and her daughter’s five-week-old baby.
The stranger also told her something that surprised her even more than the news that she had become a grandmother: her daughter Maria, who had not yet turned twenty, had “been in a nunnery”—and she had been very badly treated there.
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/nuns-story
The stranger also told her something that surprised her even more than the news that she had become a grandmother: her daughter Maria, who had not yet turned twenty, had “been in a nunnery”—and she had been very badly treated there.
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/nuns-story
