# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-monk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:14:49.330Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-monk"
name: "Maria Monk"
slug: "maria-monk"
description: "Maria Monk was a Canadian woman whose book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed (1836) claimed to expose systematic sexual abuse of nuns and infanticide of the resulting children by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal. The book is considered by scholars to be an anti-Catholic hoax."
tagline: "Canadian author (1816-1849)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mariamonk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1816-06-27"
deathDate: "1849"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.65
  momentum:             5.714285714285715
  historical:           3.981537333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83"
    title: "ماريا مونك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Monk"
    title: "Maria Monk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Monk"
    title: "Maria Monk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Monk"
    title: "Maria Monk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3291005"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump