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 122
... managed to swot up secretly on some of the areas she had neglected . And now , sitting in front of her first paper , she was able to find , even in this archaeological waste land , a theme or two on which she could discourse ...
... managed to swot up secretly on some of the areas she had neglected . And now , sitting in front of her first paper , she was able to find , even in this archaeological waste land , a theme or two on which she could discourse ...
Page 224
... managed to earn enough money to keep her family going . She worked first as matron in a hostel for refugee children , then as translator of black propaganda for the BBC , and finally as subeditor and typist for a respected literary ...
... managed to earn enough money to keep her family going . She worked first as matron in a hostel for refugee children , then as translator of black propaganda for the BBC , and finally as subeditor and typist for a respected literary ...
Page 299
... managed this transition that she was able to smile at the struggles of greater institutions - the British Library , the university presses , even the Home Office - as they made expensive mistakes . The Institute had introduced her to ...
... managed this transition that she was able to smile at the struggles of greater institutions - the British Library , the university presses , even the Home Office - as they made expensive mistakes . The Institute had introduced her to ...
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