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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... Martha White , in the last days before childbirth , lived . Martha White was a Protestant by habit . Her husband , John C. White , was one by fervent conviction . Like most Protestants , they scoffed at the superstitions of the Catholic ...
... Martha White , in the last days before childbirth , lived . Martha White was a Protestant by habit . Her husband , John C. White , was one by fervent conviction . Like most Protestants , they scoffed at the superstitions of the Catholic ...
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... Martha who , being less religious than he and massively pregnant , smiled and sighed heavily . " John , dear man ... Martha , would be another boy bairn , just like John Oge . " Martha White was an unusually optimistic woman , which was ...
... Martha who , being less religious than he and massively pregnant , smiled and sighed heavily . " John , dear man ... Martha , would be another boy bairn , just like John Oge . " Martha White was an unusually optimistic woman , which was ...
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... Martha's labour began . The moment came in the small hours of the morning of the fifteenth of June . He hurried down the road to awaken an old widow who acted as midwife in Donegal town . That done , he stayed out of the way . By an ...
... Martha's labour began . The moment came in the small hours of the morning of the fifteenth of June . He hurried down the road to awaken an old widow who acted as midwife in Donegal town . That done , he stayed out of the way . By an ...
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... Martha White tried to say something . Her husband was about to break one of the taboos of Irish rural life . Men never dealt directly with the genitalia of children , even of newborn off- spring . Inside the mud cabins of the poorest ...
... Martha White tried to say something . Her husband was about to break one of the taboos of Irish rural life . Men never dealt directly with the genitalia of children , even of newborn off- spring . Inside the mud cabins of the poorest ...
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... Martha White went daily to town . She did not move with the slow step of a countrywoman ; even when she was carrying one of her increasingly robust children she walked confidently , her head up , looking at eve- rything with undisguised ...
... Martha White went daily to town . She did not move with the slow step of a countrywoman ; even when she was carrying one of her increasingly robust children she walked confidently , her head up , looking at eve- rything with undisguised ...
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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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