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 129
... married a couple of years later in Breaseborough Church , which was odd , as they both came from Chapel families . This part of the story is full of oddities and lacunae . It is not clear why they married at all . But they did . If this ...
... married a couple of years later in Breaseborough Church , which was odd , as they both came from Chapel families . This part of the story is full of oddities and lacunae . It is not clear why they married at all . But they did . If this ...
Page 131
... marry her . He could have looked elsewhere and married out . He had no need to marry into Hammervale . We would not be asking these questions had all turned out well for Joe and Bessie . But all did not turn out well . We do not know ...
... marry her . He could have looked elsewhere and married out . He had no need to marry into Hammervale . We would not be asking these questions had all turned out well for Joe and Bessie . But all did not turn out well . We do not know ...
Page 265
... married Donald Sinclair to get away from Bessie , as she had married Nick Gaulden ? If so , the plan hadn't quite worked . Chrissie would willingly have undone her very self in order to undo these wrongs , this pain . Better not to be ...
... married Donald Sinclair to get away from Bessie , as she had married Nick Gaulden ? If so , the plan hadn't quite worked . Chrissie would willingly have undone her very self in order to undo these wrongs , this pain . Better not to be ...
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