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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... going on those ships makes everyone cry so much ... why do they do it ? " Eliza asked . " Sometimes , little love , because they have to " was all that Martha could say . Tiny as the world of the White family was - in all 23 thousand ...
... going on those ships makes everyone cry so much ... why do they do it ? " Eliza asked . " Sometimes , little love , because they have to " was all that Martha could say . Tiny as the world of the White family was - in all 23 thousand ...
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... going to church or on fair days . And their shoes matched . Outside of Donegal town , in summer , fully nine out of every ten adults they encountered were barefooted . And although Martha made all her children's clothes and some of her ...
... going to church or on fair days . And their shoes matched . Outside of Donegal town , in summer , fully nine out of every ten adults they encountered were barefooted . And although Martha made all her children's clothes and some of her ...
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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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