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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Page 62
... sent to take his place as O.A. a man called Leak . Normally he would never have been appointed an O.A. for he was a senior civil servant . But he was extremely ill with T.B. and the Government sent him to the dry climate of Jaffna as ...
... sent to take his place as O.A. a man called Leak . Normally he would never have been appointed an O.A. for he was a senior civil servant . But he was extremely ill with T.B. and the Government sent him to the dry climate of Jaffna as ...
Page 174
... sent me here as Assistant Government Agent . A " reward " because it is what they call " a charge " , I am on my own in my district which is about 1000 sq . miles with 100,000 people in it and I am supposed to be very " young " to have ...
... sent me here as Assistant Government Agent . A " reward " because it is what they call " a charge " , I am on my own in my district which is about 1000 sq . miles with 100,000 people in it and I am supposed to be very " young " to have ...
Page 201
... sent to Ceylon and were interned in camps up country . Engelbrecht was one of them . When the war was over , the prisoners - of - war were repatriated to South Africa on condition that they took the oath of allegiance to the king and ...
... sent to Ceylon and were interned in camps up country . Engelbrecht was one of them . When the war was over , the prisoners - of - war were repatriated to South Africa on condition that they took the oath of allegiance to the king and ...
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