Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Susan M. Griffin

SOURCE: "Awful Disclosures: Women's Evidence in the Escaped Nun's Tales," in PMLA, Vol. 111, No. 1, January, 1996, pp. 93-107.

Below, Griffin discusses the figure of the escapee in the anti-Catholic literature of the early nineteenth century. She relates questions of veracity concerning the escapees' claims to the larger question of the role of women in nineteenth-century American culture.