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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Page 35
... Miss Heald found this sequence of events unlikely and astonishing . Miss Heald herself , in 1922 , was forty - two years old , and it was unlikely that any Robert Brown- ing would stretch out his hand to lead her like Eurydice from the ...
... Miss Heald found this sequence of events unlikely and astonishing . Miss Heald herself , in 1922 , was forty - two years old , and it was unlikely that any Robert Brown- ing would stretch out his hand to lead her like Eurydice from the ...
Page 81
... Miss Haworth , from which she spread sweetness and light and slices of foreign sausage . Surely Bessie too would overcome her difficulties . She could not be as tender as she looked . There was determination in her as well as fear . She ...
... Miss Haworth , from which she spread sweetness and light and slices of foreign sausage . Surely Bessie too would overcome her difficulties . She could not be as tender as she looked . There was determination in her as well as fear . She ...
Page 84
... Miss Heald was one of these acquaintances . Sylvia Heald and Gertrude Wadsworth had met at a charity concert given ... Miss Heald had subsequently prevailed upon Miss Wadsworth to present the prizes at the school speech day , a ...
... Miss Heald was one of these acquaintances . Sylvia Heald and Gertrude Wadsworth had met at a charity concert given ... Miss Heald had subsequently prevailed upon Miss Wadsworth to present the prizes at the school speech day , a ...
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