At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John WhiteMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1 ago 1990 - 264 páginas 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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... Catholic and unde- niably hostile Roman Catholic peasantry of that part of Ulster . Although the province of Ulster is usually thought to have escaped the worst effects of the Irish famine , parts of it , espe- cially Donegal , were ...
... Catholic and unde- niably hostile Roman Catholic peasantry of that part of Ulster . Although the province of Ulster is usually thought to have escaped the worst effects of the Irish famine , parts of it , espe- cially Donegal , were ...
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... Catholic chapel at Charlesville , County Cork , reported that the Blessed Virgin Mary had appeared on the chapel altar and left some ashes that were a certain protec- tion against cholera . These ashes , she ordered , were to be tied ...
... Catholic chapel at Charlesville , County Cork , reported that the Blessed Virgin Mary had appeared on the chapel altar and left some ashes that were a certain protec- tion against cholera . These ashes , she ordered , were to be tied ...
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... Catholic neighbours , but being Protestants , that had something more on their mind : they saw the scurrying of their Catholic neighbours from cottage to cottage - clandes- tine , often nocturnal movements and concluded that the papists ...
... Catholic neighbours , but being Protestants , that had something more on their mind : they saw the scurrying of their Catholic neighbours from cottage to cottage - clandes- tine , often nocturnal movements and concluded that the papists ...
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... Catholics . John White Sr , like many of his fellows , spent hour after hour in a literal- minded reading of the Bible . Many nights he would hunch over the Scriptures and incline them on his lap so that the flickering light from the ...
... Catholics . John White Sr , like many of his fellows , spent hour after hour in a literal- minded reading of the Bible . Many nights he would hunch over the Scriptures and incline them on his lap so that the flickering light from the ...
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... Catholic sea . The White's cottage - cum - foundry was only three - quarters of a mile west of the centre of town and the road was good . Armed with the excuse of needing a quarter pound of tea or some fresh - caught cheap herring ...
... Catholic sea . The White's cottage - cum - foundry was only three - quarters of a mile west of the centre of town and the road was good . Armed with the excuse of needing a quarter pound of tea or some fresh - caught cheap herring ...
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At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack and John White Donald Harman Akenson,Don Akenson Vista previa restringida - 1992 |
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