Josephine Bunkley wanted to raise awareness of problems within the convent system... but her "allies" just wanted to use her story to swing 1855 state elections to a party of reactionary xenophobes. Transcript, sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/miss-bunkleys-book/ Key sources for this episode include Catherine Yacovazzi's Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America; Charles Hale's "Our Houses are our Castles"; Josephine Bunkley's The Escaped Nun; and Tyler Anbinder's Nativism & Slavery: The Northern Know-Nothings & the Politics of the 1850s. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Email: [email protected]