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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... 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 peasantry . Holy water , charms and amulets were ...
... 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 peasantry . Holy water , charms and amulets were ...
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... lived very differently than the Protestant working class of Donegal town . Standing close to their mother in a line of observers , Eliza and John Oge soaked up information from the moment the vessel's name and registration became ...
... lived very differently than the Protestant working class of Donegal town . Standing close to their mother in a line of observers , Eliza and John Oge soaked up information from the moment the vessel's name and registration became ...
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... would invite Martha and the twin - ones into her cottage . Almost half of the Catholic small farmers of County Donegal lived in tiny one - room cottages . Usually these had a smoke hole instead of a chimney The Real World 15.
... would invite Martha and the twin - ones into her cottage . Almost half of the Catholic small farmers of County Donegal lived in tiny one - room cottages . Usually these had a smoke hole instead of a chimney The Real World 15.
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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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