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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... social equality with the civil ser- vants . They belonged to the same clubs , played tennis together , and occasionally intermarried . But there is no doubt that generally the social position and prospects of a civil servant were ...
... social equality with the civil ser- vants . They belonged to the same clubs , played tennis together , and occasionally intermarried . But there is no doubt that generally the social position and prospects of a civil servant were ...
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... social life of a Ceylon civil servant , a life in which I was to be immersed for over six years , but which always retained for me a tinge of theatrical unreality . There was Vigors , the Government Agent of the Province , an ath- letic ...
... social life of a Ceylon civil servant , a life in which I was to be immersed for over six years , but which always retained for me a tinge of theatrical unreality . There was Vigors , the Government Agent of the Province , an ath- letic ...
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... 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 Colonial Secretary ...
... 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 Colonial Secretary ...
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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 District Dutton Elephant Pass Empress Empress Eugénie Engelbrecht extremely 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 Uva Province verandah village Walasmulla walked water hole Woolf