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See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850) , an adventuress and impostor, who, coming to New See also:York in 1835, claimed to have escaped from the See also:Montreal nunnery of the Hotel Dieu, concerning which, and the practices prevalent there, she circulated sensational charges in Awful Disclosures by Maria Monk (1836). Over 200,000 copies of this See also:book and a sequel were sold, and a violent See also:anti-See also:Catholic agitation resulted. She was finally exposed as a woman of See also:bad See also:character, and her See also:story proved to be absolutely false, but not until she had deceived many See also:people of See also:good See also:standing.
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