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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... head and known to none but himself . " The biographer must explore domestic and private facts and proceed from that basis to make a speculative entry into the subject's heart , mind and soul . This is why the best biographers are always ...
... head and known to none but himself . " The biographer must explore domestic and private facts and proceed from that basis to make a speculative entry into the subject's heart , mind and soul . This is why the best biographers are always ...
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... heads at the inevitable approach of disaster . Cholera reached England in 1831 and by the fall of that year spread throughout the country . Because so many migrants per- sisted in emigrating to the Canadas from the British Isles , colo ...
... heads at the inevitable approach of disaster . Cholera reached England in 1831 and by the fall of that year spread throughout the country . Because so many migrants per- sisted in emigrating to the Canadas from the British Isles , colo ...
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... healthy child . Why , in two years , its strength will be that of a young bullock , no doubt . Only ... " " Only what , woman ? " " It's a girl child , sir . " White , startled , shook his head and held the The Real World 7.
... healthy child . Why , in two years , its strength will be that of a young bullock , no doubt . Only ... " " Only what , woman ? " " It's a girl child , sir . " White , startled , shook his head and held the The Real World 7.
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... head and held the new baby at arm's length to examine it . " Are you sure ? " " As sure as there's a God in heaven . I do know what I am about , sir , " she added tartly . " Well , woman , I'll just check . " The midwife inhaled audibly ...
... head and held the new baby at arm's length to examine it . " Are you sure ? " " As sure as there's a God in heaven . I do know what I am about , sir , " she added tartly . " Well , woman , I'll just check . " The midwife inhaled audibly ...
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... head up , looking at eve- rything with undisguised curiosity . On her way she passed a number of churches and meetinghouses . Not only was there a handsome Church of Ireland edifice , built in 1824 and located just off the Diamond ...
... head up , looking at eve- rything with undisguised curiosity . On her way she passed a number of churches and meetinghouses . Not only was there a handsome Church of Ireland edifice , built in 1824 and located just off the Diamond ...
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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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