At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John WhiteMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1 Αυγ 1990 - 264 σελίδες In a parish register in Ireland, Akenson discovered a record naming an Eliza McCormack White as John's sister. Employing imaginative reconstruction, he proposes that Eliza McCormack, a transvestite prostitute who was in central Canada at the time John White arrived on the Canadian scene, was actually John's sister. Further, he suggests that John White can be best understood by recognizing that he was in fact Eliza! |
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... blacksmith with only a small cottage , an attached workshop that he called a foundry , and two acres of potato ground , all rented from the local landlord . Like even the poorest of Irish Protestants , the Whites considered themselves ...
... blacksmith with only a small cottage , an attached workshop that he called a foundry , and two acres of potato ground , all rented from the local landlord . Like even the poorest of Irish Protestants , the Whites considered themselves ...
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... blacksmith entered the room boldly now and saw clearly that this was a great strong baby . " Let me take the lad from you , " he said to the midwife . " There'll be yet another blacksmith in this family ! " He took the infant into his ...
... blacksmith entered the room boldly now and saw clearly that this was a great strong baby . " Let me take the lad from you , " he said to the midwife . " There'll be yet another blacksmith in this family ! " He took the infant into his ...
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... blacksmith made a move toward the child . Before touch- ing her he saw what his wife meant . It should have been obvi- ous . The caul ! The girl had the caul ! Plastered around the top and back of her head was a layer of amniotic ...
... blacksmith made a move toward the child . Before touch- ing her he saw what his wife meant . It should have been obvi- ous . The caul ! The girl had the caul ! Plastered around the top and back of her head was a layer of amniotic ...
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At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack and John White Donald Harman Akenson,Don Akenson Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1992 |
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