October 20, 2000
In Book on Burning of Massachusetts Convent, Scholars Seeks to Solve Mystery of Missing Nun; U. of Wisconsin Press Reclaims a Prodigal Son
THE MISSING NUN: No work of history can answer every question its author wishes to ask. Among the many mysteries that faced Nancy Lusignan Schultz when she began research on the 1834 torching of a New England convent was what happened to the Mother Superior, Mary Edmond St. George, born Mary Anne Moffatt. She had tried in vain to defend the order from rumors that eventually led a Protestant mob to burn down the Mount Benedict Community, in Charlestown, Mass. Yet
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