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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... knew the Great Famine of the 1840s , and then to emigration to Canada . For a time White disappears . It is not until the mid - 1850s that he resur- faces , north of Belleville , Ontario , with money in hand . He had entered an alliance ...
... knew the Great Famine of the 1840s , and then to emigration to Canada . For a time White disappears . It is not until the mid - 1850s that he resur- faces , north of Belleville , Ontario , with money in hand . He had entered an alliance ...
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... knew how cholera was spread , although a few sages sug- gested , correctly , that it was communicated through some dis- charge of the victim that entered the water supply . But if the causes of the pandemic were unknown , its effects ...
... knew how cholera was spread , although a few sages sug- gested , correctly , that it was communicated through some dis- charge of the victim that entered the water supply . But if the causes of the pandemic were unknown , its effects ...
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... knew what he must do as soon as 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 ...
... knew what he must do as soon as 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 ...
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... knew most of them already , but he listened attentively . He was not a superstitious man , he told himself , yet he knew enough not to ignore good fortune . With plague sweeping the countryside and the suspicious activity of his papist ...
... knew most of them already , but he listened attentively . He was not a superstitious man , he told himself , yet he knew enough not to ignore good fortune . With plague sweeping the countryside and the suspicious activity of his papist ...
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... knew it had been shaped by the " plantation of Ulster . " Early in the seventeenth century , the control wielded by the Gaelic chiefs of Ulster was finally broken and large parts of the north of Ireland were opened to settlement by ...
... knew it had been shaped by the " plantation of Ulster . " Early in the seventeenth century , the control wielded by the Gaelic chiefs of Ulster was finally broken and large parts of the north of Ireland were opened to settlement by ...
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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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