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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... women and quoted his oft - stated dictum , " Give me the ladies on my side and I don't care much for the men . " This was not a throw- away line : it was a considered principle of political solidarity . Given that women did not receive ...
... women and quoted his oft - stated dictum , " Give me the ladies on my side and I don't care much for the men . " This was not a throw- away line : it was a considered principle of political solidarity . Given that women did not receive ...
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... woman of some means and become a big - time operator in a small - town way : cheese - factory and foundry owner , local politician , Orange Lodge official . In 1871 White surprised everyone by winning a dominion parliamen- tary election ...
... woman of some means and become a big - time operator in a small - town way : cheese - factory and foundry owner , local politician , Orange Lodge official . In 1871 White surprised everyone by winning a dominion parliamen- tary election ...
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... women and the nature of the historical record . Evidence about the character and quality of women's lives is only a small fraction of that available for men's lives . Consequently , the historical methods that have been used in male ...
... women and the nature of the historical record . Evidence about the character and quality of women's lives is only a small fraction of that available for men's lives . Consequently , the historical methods that have been used in male ...
Σελίδα xii
... women's lives . Heuristic biography can correct in part this historical imbalance . We know with certainty that although the details of all save a very few female lives in the past are lacking , women played major roles in the history ...
... women's lives . Heuristic biography can correct in part this historical imbalance . We know with certainty that although the details of all save a very few female lives in the past are lacking , women played major roles in the history ...
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... woman . The adoration of the beloved fit his sentiments exactly . " The best gift God could give us , Martha , would be another boy bairn , just like John Oge . " Martha White was an unusually optimistic woman , which was just as well ...
... woman . The adoration of the beloved fit his sentiments exactly . " The best gift God could give us , Martha , would be another boy bairn , just like John Oge . " Martha White was an unusually optimistic woman , which was just as well ...
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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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