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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... taken on the deceased John White's name and much of his persona . What a pinched , pained and heroic life she must have led ! At heart she was a loving and generous person , a loyal friend and a devoted provider for her family . Withal ...
... taken on the deceased John White's name and much of his persona . What a pinched , pained and heroic life she must have led ! At heart she was a loving and generous person , a loyal friend and a devoted provider for her family . Withal ...
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... taken to cottages in the area they were to be hidden in the rafters or chimneys . A relieved cottager would then take ashes from his own chimney or hearth , tie them into four parcels , carry them to four cottages 4 Donegal's Own.
... taken to cottages in the area they were to be hidden in the rafters or chimneys . A relieved cottager would then take ashes from his own chimney or hearth , tie them into four parcels , carry them to four cottages 4 Donegal's Own.
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... taken to laying waste the nobility and gentry . White was a blacksmith with only a small cottage , an attached workshop that he called a foundry , and two acres of potato ground , all rented from the local landlord . Like even the ...
... taken to laying waste the nobility and gentry . White was a blacksmith with only a small cottage , an attached workshop that he called a foundry , and two acres of potato ground , all rented from the local landlord . Like even the ...
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... taken over when British vessels were banned from the slave trade , who , with only a change in name , now took the Irish to North America . " Mother , please , why if going on those ships makes everyone cry so much ... why do they do it ...
... taken over when British vessels were banned from the slave trade , who , with only a change in name , now took the Irish to North America . " Mother , please , why if going on those ships makes everyone cry so much ... why do they do it ...
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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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