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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... Already Bessie sensed this , and already she feared it . She sensed inertia in the Bawtry marrowbone . Others had shouldered their packs , taken to the road , fled with dark strangers , enlisted , crossed the seas , crossed their ...
... Already Bessie sensed this , and already she feared it . She sensed inertia in the Bawtry marrowbone . Others had shouldered their packs , taken to the road , fled with dark strangers , enlisted , crossed the seas , crossed their ...
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... already read , for she was precocious , and had learned several skills at Morley Mixed Infants on the Oxford Road . But the words she now muttered to herself were not the short clean words from the school primer , nor the jingling ...
... already read , for she was precocious , and had learned several skills at Morley Mixed Infants on the Oxford Road . But the words she now muttered to herself were not the short clean words from the school primer , nor the jingling ...
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... already did every winter , and regain this lassitude , this luxury , this queenly attendance . And so she recovered , slowly regaining her strength through an exceptionally cold winter , pampered by a fire in the grate and a solid round ...
... already did every winter , and regain this lassitude , this luxury , this queenly attendance . And so she recovered , slowly regaining her strength through an exceptionally cold winter , pampered by a fire in the grate and a solid round ...
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