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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... cottages in the area they were to be hidden in the rafters or chimneys . A relieved cottager would then take ashes from his own chimney or hearth , tie them into four parcels , carry them to four cottages 4 Donegal's Own.
... cottages in the area they were to be hidden in the rafters or chimneys . A relieved cottager would then take ashes from his own chimney or hearth , tie them into four parcels , carry them to four cottages 4 Donegal's Own.
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... cottage to cottage - clandes- tine , often nocturnal movements and concluded that the papists were up to something . The Whites were not alone in this . In places throughout Ireland , Protestants went to the police or to the local ...
... cottage to cottage - clandes- tine , often nocturnal movements and concluded that the papists were up to something . The Whites were not alone in this . In places throughout Ireland , Protestants went to the police or to the local ...
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... cottage hearth so that he could fan a flame if the need to read God's holy word took him after nightfall . His first response to the news that the Catholics were doing some- thing strange with turf and ashes was to open the Book of ...
... cottage hearth so that he could fan a flame if the need to read God's holy word took him after nightfall . His first response to the news that the Catholics were doing some- thing strange with turf and ashes was to open the Book of ...
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... cottage . He held his breath . Hearing nothing , he proceeded cautiously across the threshold . By the light of the hearth , he could just make out the black form of the midwife . In her arms , wrapped in a large shawl , was the baby ...
... cottage . He held his breath . Hearing nothing , he proceeded cautiously across the threshold . By the light of the hearth , he could just make out the black form of the midwife . In her arms , wrapped in a large shawl , was the baby ...
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... cottage - cum - foundry was only three - quarters of a mile west of the centre of town and the road was good . Armed with the excuse of needing a quarter pound of tea or some fresh - caught cheap herring , Martha White went daily to ...
... cottage - cum - foundry was only three - quarters of a mile west of the centre of town and the road was good . Armed with the excuse of needing a quarter pound of tea or some fresh - caught cheap herring , Martha White went daily to ...
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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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