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 ...
Page 24
... 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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