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 sun , which in the late morning hits one as if a burning hand were smacking one's face , the whole of my past life in London and Cambridge seemed suddenly to have vanished , to have faded away into un- reality . I spent a ...
... Colombo sun , which in the late morning hits one as if a burning hand were smacking one's face , the whole of my past life in London and Cambridge seemed suddenly to have vanished , to have faded away into un- reality . I spent a ...
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... Colombo en route back to London and his home . So he set off back again by the way we had come , down the railway line to Colombo . At any rate , two Church Missionary Society lady missionaries , Miss Beeching and Miss Case , who lived ...
... Colombo en route back to London and his home . So he set off back again by the way we had come , down the railway line to Colombo . At any rate , two Church Missionary Society lady missionaries , Miss Beeching and Miss Case , who lived ...
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... Colombo brothel . One day I received from the Government in Colombo a telegram informing me that Baron Blixen , a Danish cousin of Queen Alexandra , was coming to shoot in my District , and I was to help him in every way possible . I ...
... Colombo brothel . One day I received from the Government in Colombo a telegram informing me that Baron Blixen , a Danish cousin of Queen Alexandra , was coming to shoot in my District , and I was to help him in every way possible . I ...
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1817 LIBRARIES afternoon Anuradhapura Arabs Arachchi asked Assistant Government Agent Baron Blixen became boat Buddhist buffaloes bullock cart bungalow cattle Ceylon Civil Service CHIGAN civil servant Colombo Court curious deal deer dhows District Dutton Elephant Pass Empress Empress Eugénie Engelbrecht enquiry face felt Game Sanctuary Giruwa Pattu Governor Hambantota Hambantota District head headmen Jaffna kachcheri Kandy Kandyan Kataragama kind knew koddu lagoon Leonard Woolf leopard letter to Lytton lewaya licences lived looked Magampattu Mannar ment MICHIGAN miles mind months morning never night Office Assistant one's oysters Pearl Fishery planters play Police Magistrate Province remember Rest House riding rinderpest road round salt sand seemed shooting side Sinhalese Southorn strange suddenly Superintendent of Police talked Tamil Tangalla temple tennis thing Tissa Tissamaharama told took town trees Twynam UNIV Uva Province verandah village Walasmulla walked water hole Woolf