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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... planter . The attitude of planters ' wives with nubile daughters to potential sons - in - law left one in no doubt of this , for the marriage market is an infallible test of social values . The business men were on an altogether lower ...
... planter . The attitude of planters ' wives with nubile daughters to potential sons - in - law left one in no doubt of this , for the marriage market is an infallible test of social values . The business men were on an altogether lower ...
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... planters , army officers , and their wives and daughters . After tennis I usually went down to the Kandy Club . In those days in an Asiatic station where there was " the Club " , it was a symbol and centre of British imperialism ...
... planters , army officers , and their wives and daughters . After tennis I usually went down to the Kandy Club . In those days in an Asiatic station where there was " the Club " , it was a symbol and centre of British imperialism ...
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... planters , keen on hockey , used to come in to play ; about six or seven men from the regiment , the subaltern ... planter playing half - back on my wing in front of me , and he was obviously Eurasian , but not Ceylonese . One of our ...
... planters , keen on hockey , used to come in to play ; about six or seven men from the regiment , the subaltern ... planter playing half - back on my wing in front of me , and he was obviously Eurasian , but not Ceylonese . One of our ...
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