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 43
... talked in the Jaffna of those days . Mrs. Lewis never again referred to Mary , and even later in Kandy , where the field for the matchmaker was far wider and more favourable , she never again tried to practise her art upon me . In all ...
... talked in the Jaffna of those days . Mrs. Lewis never again referred to Mary , and even later in Kandy , where the field for the matchmaker was far wider and more favourable , she never again tried to practise her art upon me . In all ...
Page 72
... talked , we were embedded in , overwhelmed by this starry magnificence . Dutton and Miss Beeching had , I think , both changed . He seemed to have shrunk and she to have swollen . They reminded me of those pairs of insects — some are ...
... talked , we were embedded in , overwhelmed by this starry magnificence . Dutton and Miss Beeching had , I think , both changed . He seemed to have shrunk and she to have swollen . They reminded me of those pairs of insects — some are ...
Page 97
... talked incessantly like an Irishman in a novel ; he was also extremely able and became Sir Malcolm Stevenson , K.C.M.G. , Governor of Cyprus . A curious incident hap- pened to us one night . We had been dining with the G.A. and were ...
... talked incessantly like an Irishman in a novel ; he was also extremely able and became Sir Malcolm Stevenson , K.C.M.G. , Governor of Cyprus . A curious incident hap- pened to us one night . We had been dining with the G.A. and were ...
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