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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... staying up at 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 ...
... staying up at 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 ...
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... stayed out of the way . By an unspoken rule , men were forbidden to be in the same room as a woman in parturition . John White Sr would have been more apt to break the commandment against murder than he would this fundamental law of the ...
... stayed out of the way . By an unspoken rule , men were forbidden to be in the same room as a woman in parturition . John White Sr would have been more apt to break the commandment against murder than he would this fundamental law of 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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