MARIA MONK'S DESCENDANTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9, 1 March 1900, Page 5

MARIA MONK'S DESCENDANTS.

Catholic as well as Protestant readers will be interested to know that Maria Monk's daughter is still living. She is a cultivated woman, was twice honourably married, is in easy circumstances, is a devout and fervent Catholic, speaks with frank indignation and keen regret of the use which is still being made by the adventurers and purveyors of unclean literature of the disgusting book of which not one line was penned by her unhappy and half-witted mother who, as we have seen, was probably as much sinned against as sinning. In IRTOshe published in New York an autobiography entitled Maria Monk* Duv.jhttr. Her daughter (the grandchild of Maria Monk) grew up a girl of great piety. She renounced the world somewhere in the eighties, after her fathers death, and entered a religious Order which, we believe, devotes its whole or chief care to the reformation ot the frail sisterhood of the streets from the evil of their ways.