The Peppered MothA portrait of four generations of one family, this story explores themes of inheritance, DNA, the individual's place in history and fate. It spans from Bessie Bawtry, a small child living in a Yorkshire mining town in 1905, to her granddaughter, listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance. |
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... Bessie by now managed to persuade her that they were somehow contemptible . Health , in Bessie's view , was rude , and therefore the healthy Dora was inferior . Dora , who looked up to her big sister , had come to believe this . Her ...
... Bessie by now managed to persuade her that they were somehow contemptible . Health , in Bessie's view , was rude , and therefore the healthy Dora was inferior . Dora , who looked up to her big sister , had come to believe this . Her ...
Page 131
... Bessie's granddaughter Faro , whom we left , if you remember , in a Nonconformist chapel in Bessie's birthplace , Breaseborough , in the company of Bessie's sister , her Great Aunt Dora . Faro , as we are reunited with her , is still to ...
... Bessie's granddaughter Faro , whom we left , if you remember , in a Nonconformist chapel in Bessie's birthplace , Breaseborough , in the company of Bessie's sister , her Great Aunt Dora . Faro , as we are reunited with her , is still to ...
Page 170
... Bessie's withdrawal . He under- stood that she had been through trying times without him , and he was sorry to see her take to her bed . But he was not surprised . He had seen Bessie's retreats before now . He had hoped she would grow ...
... Bessie's withdrawal . He under- stood that she had been through trying times without him , and he was sorry to see her take to her bed . But he was not surprised . He had seen Bessie's retreats before now . He had hoped she would grow ...
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