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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... told himself , yet he knew enough not to ignore good fortune . With plague sweeping the countryside and the suspicious activity of his papist neighbours , it was a relief to accept a little comfort . When the midwife had rattled off the ...
... told himself , yet he knew enough not to ignore good fortune . With plague sweeping the countryside and the suspicious activity of his papist neighbours , it was a relief to accept a little comfort . When the midwife had rattled off the ...
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... told whatever uncom- prehending infant child she held as they passed it ) , but also a thatched - roof Roman Catholic chapel ( “ shabby and that's as it should be " ) , a sub - fusc one - room Presbyterian meetinghouse , a Wesleyan hall ...
... told whatever uncom- prehending infant child she held as they passed it ) , but also a thatched - roof Roman Catholic chapel ( “ shabby and that's as it should be " ) , a sub - fusc one - room Presbyterian meetinghouse , a Wesleyan hall ...
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... told her children tales of chivalry of the kind that circulated as folklore in many parts of the British Isles and which Sir Walter Scott eventually collected , embroidered and parlayed into a fortune . Martha White was unusual among ...
... told her children tales of chivalry of the kind that circulated as folklore in many parts of the British Isles and which Sir Walter Scott eventually collected , embroidered and parlayed into a fortune . Martha White was unusual among ...
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... told Martha . " But we have enough Scotch to speak till yourself . " Sometimes a countrywoman would invite Martha and the twin - ones into her cottage . Almost half of the Catholic small farmers of County Donegal lived in tiny one ...
... told Martha . " But we have enough Scotch to speak till yourself . " Sometimes a countrywoman would invite Martha and the twin - ones into her cottage . Almost half of the Catholic small farmers of County Donegal lived in tiny one ...
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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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