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“... specimen’: a stable strain that, due to intensive inbreeding, amounted to what Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden in Rat City call ‘a race of incest clones’. With the development of the Wistar, the lab rat became a branded product. According to The Rat: Reference Tables and Data for the Albino Rat and the Norway Rat (1915), a guide by Donaldson and ...”

“... form is as good as the writer who chooses it,’ the slightly older and more sophisticated Edmund Wilkie is sceptical. You will think differently, he tells her, ‘when you decide to be a lady novelist, and get set to write a long novel by Proust out of George Eliot, and it won’t get up and walk.’ The author of The Virgin in the Garden was also 17 ...”