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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... FOUR : NEW DIMENSIONS 5 I Blush to Remember 85 6 Prospecting 98 7 Hard Graft 113 8 Emancipation 131 MY OWN MAN 9 Home and Hearth 145 10 Civic Sense 156 11 12 Gathering Force 163 The People's Choice 177 13 Loyalties 188 CHANGING FORTUNES ...
... FOUR : NEW DIMENSIONS 5 I Blush to Remember 85 6 Prospecting 98 7 Hard Graft 113 8 Emancipation 131 MY OWN MAN 9 Home and Hearth 145 10 Civic Sense 156 11 12 Gathering Force 163 The People's Choice 177 13 Loyalties 188 CHANGING FORTUNES ...
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... taken to 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.
... taken to 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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... four parcels , carry them to four cottages that had not yet been visited , and so on . So desperate were the Irish peasants for solace in their hour of peril that in a mere four hours , between midnight and 4 A.M. , the message spread ...
... four parcels , carry them to four cottages that had not yet been visited , and so on . So desperate were the Irish peasants for solace in their hour of peril that in a mere four hours , between midnight and 4 A.M. , the message spread ...
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... four or five , adult males were expected to stare past the generative portions of their children's anatomy . It was for mothers and elder daughters to deal with such things . This was too important to White . He unwrapped the infant and ...
... four or five , adult males were expected to stare past the generative portions of their children's anatomy . It was for mothers and elder daughters to deal with such things . This was too important to White . He unwrapped the infant and ...
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... four and three years of age , respectively , they were able to accompany their mother on her daily walks . A year ... four- year - old , that was explanation enough . Half a dozen times a year a vessel of four hundred tons or Methodist ...
... four and three years of age , respectively , they were able to accompany their mother on her daily walks . A year ... four- year - old , that was explanation enough . Half a dozen times a year a vessel of four hundred tons or Methodist ...
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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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