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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... person's life are his acts and his words ! His real life is in his head and known to none but himself . " The biographer must explore domestic and private facts and proceed from that basis to make a speculative entry into the subject's ...
... person's life are his acts and his words ! His real life is in his head and known to none but himself . " The biographer must explore domestic and private facts and proceed from that basis to make a speculative entry into the subject's ...
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... person , a loyal friend and a devoted provider for her family . Withal she had a straight from the shoulder honesty and a rural shrewdness that made her a character to be reckoned with . She was a postmodern ( perhaps even a ...
... person , a loyal friend and a devoted provider for her family . Withal she had a straight from the shoulder honesty and a rural shrewdness that made her a character to be reckoned with . She was a postmodern ( perhaps even a ...
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... persons - the world that Eliza and John Oge saw was a great deal larger than that of most Irish children of the time . Martha White introduced the " twin - ones " ( a term she and John Sr began to use when the children were four and ...
... persons - the world that Eliza and John Oge saw was a great deal larger than that of most Irish children of the time . Martha White introduced the " twin - ones " ( a term she and John Sr began to use when the children were four and ...
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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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