Maria Monk was an adventuress and impostor, whose book "Awful Disclosures by Maria Monk" became a best-seller.
Background
Maria Monk was born in 1817.
Career
Coming to New York in 1835.
She was finally exposed as a woman of bad character, and her story proved to be absolutely false, but not until she had deceived many people of good standing.
Achievements
Over 200, 000 copies of her book and a sequel were sold, and a violent anti- Catholic agitation resulted.
