For a short time, this figure resided at the home of doctor William Willcocks Sleigh, who published an account of the six days she spent in Philadelphia. Originally, she was a mistress of William Hoyte, the head of the Benevolent Association, and traveled with him to New York, but abandoned him to be the companion of J.J. Slocum, whom she later joined in filing a lawsuit against both Hoyte and George Bourne. The American Protestant Vindicator first detailed this woman's story, which was published one year after Rebecca Reed released a similar tale. She spent "five years as a novice and two years as a black nun" at the Hotel Dieu Nunnery in Montreal, where she claimed to see a graveyard of dead babies. Her life was the basis for the most widely-read contemporary boo
For a short time, this figure resided at the home of doctor William Willcocks Sleigh, who published an account of the six days she spent in Philadelphia. Originally, she was a mistress of William Hoyte, the head of the Benevolent Association, and traveled with him to New York, but abandoned him to be the companion of J.J. Slocum, whom she later joined in filing a lawsuit against both Hoyte and George Bourne. The American Protestant Vindicator first detailed this woman's story, which was published one year after Rebecca Reed released a similar tale. She spent "five years as a novice and two years as a black nun" at the Hotel Dieu Nunnery in Montreal, where she claimed to see a graveyard of dead babies. Her life was the basis for the most widely-read contemporary book in America prior to Uncle Tom's Cabin, due to thirst for anti-Catholic literature. For 10 points, name this nun, the subject of a sensational 1836 book about her "Awful Disclosures."