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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... night in fear of attack . But the Irish Catholics were not like the Hungarian peasantry who , in the belief that the nobility was spreading cholera , murdered members of aristocratic families . There were few recorded instances of ...
... night in fear of attack . But the Irish Catholics were not like the Hungarian peasantry who , in the belief that the nobility was spreading cholera , murdered members of aristocratic families . There were few recorded instances of ...
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... nights he would hunch over the Scriptures and incline them on his lap so that the flickering light from the turf fire ... night the section of the Old Testament that goes , " My love , you're as beautiful as Jerusalem , as lovely as the ...
... nights he would hunch over the Scriptures and incline them on his lap so that the flickering light from the turf fire ... night the section of the Old Testament that goes , " My love , you're as beautiful as Jerusalem , as lovely as the ...
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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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