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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... Colombo and on January 1st or 2nd , 1905 , now a Cadet in the Ceylon Civil Service on a salary of £ 300 a year , I set out for Jaffna with a Sinhalese servant , my dog , a wooden crate containing Voltaire , and an enormous tin- lined ...
... Colombo and on January 1st or 2nd , 1905 , now a Cadet in the Ceylon Civil Service on a salary of £ 300 a year , I set out for Jaffna with a Sinhalese servant , my dog , a wooden crate containing Voltaire , and an enormous tin- lined ...
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... Ceylon civil servant , a life in which I was to be immersed for over six ... service , Miss Vigors . Then there was the Office Assistant to the Govern ... civil servants . They were all very friendly and wanting to put the new boy at ease ...
... Ceylon civil servant , a life in which I was to be immersed for over six ... service , Miss Vigors . Then there was the Office Assistant to the Govern ... civil servants . They were all very friendly and wanting to put the new boy at ease ...
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... Ceylon Civil Service in the year 1905. The island was divided administratively into nine Provinces and some of the ... civil servant of 20 years ' service or more . The Provincial government office or offices , the kachcheri , was always ...
... Ceylon Civil Service in the year 1905. The island was divided administratively into nine Provinces and some of the ... civil servant of 20 years ' service or more . The Provincial government office or offices , the kachcheri , was always ...
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