Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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... arrival . It was a rule of the P. & O. not to take dogs on their boats and I therefore had to send out my dog , Charles , on a Bibby Line vessel . The day after my arrival I went down to the harbour to meet the Bibby boat . Charles ...
... arrival . It was a rule of the P. & O. not to take dogs on their boats and I therefore had to send out my dog , Charles , on a Bibby Line vessel . The day after my arrival I went down to the harbour to meet the Bibby boat . Charles ...
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... arrived at Elephant Pass at 9 o'clock in the morning of Thursday , January 5th . The town of Jaffna , for which I was bound , was the capital and administrative centre of the Northern Pro- vince . It stood upon a peninsula - the Jaffna ...
... arrived at Elephant Pass at 9 o'clock in the morning of Thursday , January 5th . The town of Jaffna , for which I was bound , was the capital and administrative centre of the Northern Pro- vince . It stood upon a peninsula - the Jaffna ...
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... arrived and their leader Count Frijs called on me , accompanied by his daughter . The Count was a tall , very good - looking Swede ; the Countess made my heart , chaste and chastened by two years in Hambantota , turn over in my breast ...
... arrived and their leader Count Frijs called on me , accompanied by his daughter . The Count was a tall , very good - looking Swede ; the Countess made my heart , chaste and chastened by two years in Hambantota , turn over in my breast ...
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