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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... Jaffna with a Sinhalese servant , my dog , a wooden crate containing Voltaire , and an enormous tin- lined trunk containing clothes . In those days the journey , even without this impedimenta , was not an easy one . Jaffna , on the ...
... Jaffna with a Sinhalese servant , my dog , a wooden crate containing Voltaire , and an enormous tin- lined trunk containing clothes . In those days the journey , even without this impedimenta , was not an easy one . Jaffna , on the ...
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... Jaffna peninsula that in many places one village has joined up to another and to what is now the municipal area of Jaffna town . The consequence was that if I bicycled out of Jaffna to the opposite coast or to some far off village , as ...
... Jaffna peninsula that in many places one village has joined up to another and to what is now the municipal area of Jaffna town . The consequence was that if I bicycled out of Jaffna to the opposite coast or to some far off village , as ...
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... JAFFNA KACHCHERI , JAFFNA . 30th October , 1907 . If you have not made any other plans for Christmas , we wondered whether you would like to come back to Jaffna ? If so , we should be so pleased if you will stay with us and hope you ...
... JAFFNA KACHCHERI , JAFFNA . 30th October , 1907 . If you have not made any other plans for Christmas , we wondered whether you would like to come back to Jaffna ? If so , we should be so pleased if you will stay with us and hope you ...
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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