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Matthew Lewis' 1796 Gothic Novel The Monk has as parts of its setting both a fictional monastery and nunnery in Spain at the time of the Inquisition. Many have interpreted Lewis' novel as a critique of Catholicism.^[1] Jane Austen sets the latter half of her 1818 novel Northanger Abbey in an out of use monastery, reflecting on Henry VIII's abolition of monasticism in England and the contemporary abolition of monasticism in France in the wake of the French Revolution.^[2] Convents for female monastics, or nunneries, were often portrayed as punishments for women unable to marry.^[3]

^ Watkins, Daniel P. (1986). "Social Hierarchy in Matthew Lewis's "the Monk"". Studies in the Novel. 18 (2): 115–124. ISSN 0039-3827.
^ Moore, Roger E. (2011). "The Hidden History of Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen and the Dissolution of the Monasteries". Religion & Literature. 43 (1): 55–80. ISSN 0888-3769.
^ Rogers, Katharine M. (1985). "Fantasy and Reality in Fictional Convents of the Eighteenth Century". Comparative Literature Studies. 22 (3): 297–316. ISSN 0010-4132.

[1] Watkins, Daniel P. (1986). "Social Hierarchy in Matthew Lewis's "the Monk"". Studies in the Novel. 18 (2): 115–124. ISSN 0039-3827.

[2] Moore, Roger E. (2011). "The Hidden History of Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen and the Dissolution of the Monasteries". Religion & Literature. 43 (1): 55–80. ISSN 0888-3769.

[3] Rogers, Katharine M. (1985). "Fantasy and Reality in Fictional Convents of the Eighteenth Century". Comparative Literature Studies. 22 (3): 297–316. ISSN 0010-4132.

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