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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... usually had a good deal of independence and scope for initiative . In 1905 the Northern Province was divided into the Jaffna peninsula with the provincial kachcheri in Jaffna town , and on the mainland two Districts , 34 GROWING.
... usually had a good deal of independence and scope for initiative . In 1905 the Northern Province was divided into the Jaffna peninsula with the provincial kachcheri in Jaffna town , and on the mainland two Districts , 34 GROWING.
Page 69
... usually played singles together , and I handed Dutton over to them ; for the next few months Dutton used to come and play nearly every evening a hopelessly incompetent game of tennis with Miss Case and Miss Beeching . And I think I ...
... usually played singles together , and I handed Dutton over to them ; for the next few months Dutton used to come and play nearly every evening a hopelessly incompetent game of tennis with Miss Case and Miss Beeching . And I think I ...
Page 143
... usually called , had a key to the shrine , and without the two being present the door could not be unlocked . In practice I , as O.A. , kept the G.A.'s key , and arranged with Nugawela Ratemahatmaya for unlocking the door if and when ...
... usually called , had a key to the shrine , and without the two being present the door could not be unlocked . In practice I , as O.A. , kept the G.A.'s key , and arranged with Nugawela Ratemahatmaya for unlocking the door if and when ...
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