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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... letter to Lytton which recalls to me very vividly the atmosphere and savour of those early days in Jaffna : May 21 , 1905 A cataclysm is hourly expected here . Yesterday a headman came to the Kachcheri and reported that a hole had ...
... letter to Lytton which recalls to me very vividly the atmosphere and savour of those early days in Jaffna : May 21 , 1905 A cataclysm is hourly expected here . Yesterday a headman came to the Kachcheri and reported that a hole had ...
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... letter that one is writing to an intimate friend of one's youth , the ... Lytton in the early years of my time in Ceylon ! I felt keenly the complete ... Lytton , all these feelings were so strong that they overwhelmed or eliminated all ...
... letter that one is writing to an intimate friend of one's youth , the ... Lytton in the early years of my time in Ceylon ! I felt keenly the complete ... Lytton , all these feelings were so strong that they overwhelmed or eliminated all ...
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... letter to Lytton I wrote : " The work is consequently going on day and night and I have only been about 3 or 4 hours in bed out of the last 72. " I think that my recovery from typhoid had given me a new lease of life and , as I often ...
... letter to Lytton I wrote : " The work is consequently going on day and night and I have only been about 3 or 4 hours in bed out of the last 72. " I think that my recovery from typhoid had given me a new lease of life and , as I often ...
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