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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... civil servants , Millington and I going out to Ceylon , and a young man called Scafe who had just passed into the Indian Civil Service . There were also two or three Colombo business men , in par- ticular a large flamboyant Mr. X who ...
... civil servants , Millington and I going out to Ceylon , and a young man called Scafe who had just passed into the Indian Civil Service . There were also two or three Colombo business men , in par- ticular a large flamboyant Mr. X who ...
Page 34
... civil servant of 20 years ' service or more . The Provincial government office or offices , the kachcheri , was always in the chief town of the Province , and there the Government Agent had his Residence . Districts were in the charge ...
... civil servant of 20 years ' service or more . The Provincial government office or offices , the kachcheri , was always in the chief town of the Province , and there the Government Agent had his Residence . Districts were in the charge ...
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... civil servant . A social analysis of the service in my time would , I think , have revealed the curious fact that , if you were thought to be not much of a " good fellow " or not much of a " gentle- man " , this was considered by the ...
... civil servant . A social analysis of the service in my time would , I think , have revealed the curious fact that , if you were thought to be not much of a " good fellow " or not much of a " gentle- man " , this was considered by the ...
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