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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... town way : cheese - factory and foundry owner , local politician , Orange Lodge official . In 1871 White surprised everyone by winning a dominion parliamen- tary election , and from then until 1887 he was a trustworthy Tory backbencher ...
... town way : cheese - factory and foundry owner , local politician , Orange Lodge official . In 1871 White surprised everyone by winning a dominion parliamen- tary election , and from then until 1887 he was a trustworthy Tory backbencher ...
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... town . That done , he stayed out of the way . By an unspoken rule , men were forbidden to be in the same room as a woman in parturition . John White Sr would have been more apt to break the commandment against murder than he would this ...
... town . That done , he stayed out of the way . By an unspoken rule , men were forbidden to be in the same room as a woman in parturition . John White Sr would have been more apt to break the commandment against murder than he would this ...
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... town of Donegal had slightly more than eight hundred inhabitants and was a deceptively pleasant place to look at . With its row of sea - side businesses fronting on a wharf and a town square shaped like a triangle and called County ...
... town of Donegal had slightly more than eight hundred inhabitants and was a deceptively pleasant place to look at . With its row of sea - side businesses fronting on a wharf and a town square shaped like a triangle and called County ...
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... town linked sea communications with inland roads . The town of Donegal ( located , as official documents noted , in the Parish of Donegal , in the Barony of Tyrhugh , in the County of Donegal , in the Province of Ulster ) , had been ...
... town linked sea communications with inland roads . The town of Donegal ( located , as official documents noted , in the Parish of Donegal , in the Barony of Tyrhugh , in the County of Donegal , in the Province of Ulster ) , had been ...
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... town and in the countryside . In town they often saw some plump matron from London- derry , or better still , from Scotland , visiting the town's sul- pherous spa . " Och , look at that fine lady , " Martha would note , and they would ...
... town and in the countryside . In town they often saw some plump matron from London- derry , or better still , from Scotland , visiting the town's sul- pherous spa . " Och , look at that fine lady , " Martha would note , and they would ...
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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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