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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... woman sits a beautiful young woman . What on earth is she doing here ? She is radiant with light . She dazzles . She is a bobby - dazzler . She has surely walked in out of some other plot . She cannot be the daughter of that old woman ...
... woman sits a beautiful young woman . What on earth is she doing here ? She is radiant with light . She dazzles . She is a bobby - dazzler . She has surely walked in out of some other plot . She cannot be the daughter of that old woman ...
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... woman from London , and flirted with her , and talked non- sense with her , as though he were another kind of person altogether . He had enjoyed himself . Then he had driven home alone , in the Fancy Glass Van . And he had been happy ...
... woman from London , and flirted with her , and talked non- sense with her , as though he were another kind of person altogether . He had enjoyed himself . Then he had driven home alone , in the Fancy Glass Van . And he had been happy ...
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... woman in encaustic on fir , with added gilding . ' ' Portrait of a woman in tempera on a linen shroud . ' The lively riches of encaustic favour the living flesh of Faro , Seb insists . Tempera is too pale and thin for her . " The flesh ...
... woman in encaustic on fir , with added gilding . ' ' Portrait of a woman in tempera on a linen shroud . ' The lively riches of encaustic favour the living flesh of Faro , Seb insists . Tempera is too pale and thin for her . " The flesh ...
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