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 99
... told Bessie that she herself was preparing a paper to deliver to the Literary Institute in which she hoped to compare the dramatic monologues of Browning and Eliot . She brought the poems of Edith Sitwell which had , like so much , been ...
... told Bessie that she herself was preparing a paper to deliver to the Literary Institute in which she hoped to compare the dramatic monologues of Browning and Eliot . She brought the poems of Edith Sitwell which had , like so much , been ...
Page 326
... told the story well . She told it better than her mother did . She was able to make it more amusing than her mother could . Faro had been quite fond of her poor old grandma . The mitochondrial DNA of Bessie Barron lives on in her ...
... told the story well . She told it better than her mother did . She was able to make it more amusing than her mother could . Faro had been quite fond of her poor old grandma . The mitochondrial DNA of Bessie Barron lives on in her ...
Page 379
... told him he needed to see a psychoanalyst more urgently than a physician and recom- mended Moira , whom she had just met at a book launch to celebrate a new genetics - based study of mother - daughter relationships called The Maternal ...
... told him he needed to see a psychoanalyst more urgently than a physician and recom- mended Moira , whom she had just met at a book launch to celebrate a new genetics - based study of mother - daughter relationships called The Maternal ...
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