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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... took out a violent - hued raffia basket of purple and acid - green which she was constructing , and Mrs Barron took up her embroidery - yet another linen tablecloth , which would join its companions in a drawer full of unused linen ...
... took out a violent - hued raffia basket of purple and acid - green which she was constructing , and Mrs Barron took up her embroidery - yet another linen tablecloth , which would join its companions in a drawer full of unused linen ...
Page 104
... took no clear shape . A world of ideas , and talk , and good works , and public service , and progress . The kind of world he read about in books . Culture . Civilization . Was it wrong to dream of these things ? Was it presumptuous ...
... took no clear shape . A world of ideas , and talk , and good works , and public service , and progress . The kind of world he read about in books . Culture . Civilization . Was it wrong to dream of these things ? Was it presumptuous ...
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... took Chrissie to the Dental Hospital in Leeds when Chrissie broke off both her front teeth , and it was Dora who watched the nerve extraction and the drilling , and it was Dora who took Chrissie on follow - up visits for the fitting of ...
... took Chrissie to the Dental Hospital in Leeds when Chrissie broke off both her front teeth , and it was Dora who watched the nerve extraction and the drilling , and it was Dora who took Chrissie on follow - up visits for the fitting of ...
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