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 70
... Yorkshire . He had been brought to the light of day and the electronic age by a team from the Natural History Museum and Northam University . He had been nicknamed Steve by the popular press , after his dis- coverer , Steve Nieman ...
... Yorkshire . He had been brought to the light of day and the electronic age by a team from the Natural History Museum and Northam University . He had been nicknamed Steve by the popular press , after his dis- coverer , Steve Nieman ...
Page 128
... Yorkshire accent had perhaps prejudiced interviewers against her . This was not her opinion , for she did not believe herself to have a Yorkshire accent , but this is what others suspected . Miss Heald felt obliged to take her back into ...
... Yorkshire accent had perhaps prejudiced interviewers against her . This was not her opinion , for she did not believe herself to have a Yorkshire accent , but this is what others suspected . Miss Heald felt obliged to take her back into ...
Page 191
... Yorkshire again . In the fifties , she had managed to escape Yorkshire altogether , for when Robert was eighteen and Chrissie fifteen Joe Barron took silk , and as a Queen's Counsel he was no longer expected to live near his old circuit ...
... Yorkshire again . In the fifties , she had managed to escape Yorkshire altogether , for when Robert was eighteen and Chrissie fifteen Joe Barron took silk , and as a Queen's Counsel he was no longer expected to live near his old circuit ...
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