Later Life
Monk traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a lover whom historians often identify as Graham Monk. She penned a sequel, Further Disclosures of Maria Monk. When she gave birth to another child, Oliver (a brother to William), out of wedlock in 1838, most of her supporters abandoned her.
The Boston Pilot published this obituary on September 8, 1849: "There is an end of Maria Monk; she died in the almshouse, Blackwell's Island, still cooking as was her wont, New York, on Tuesday".
Awful Disclosures remained in print for years afterwards and was occasionally revived. There appear to have been two Australian editions (1920, 1940). The last recorded unsupplemented facsimile edition was published in 1977.
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