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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... arrived in Ceylon in February , and , as she had been born in 1826 , she was then over 81 years old . One day in March a telegram came from the Colonial Secretary to the G.A. saying that Her Majesty the Empress would arrive the ...
... arrived in Ceylon in February , and , as she had been born in 1826 , she was then over 81 years old . One day in March a telegram came from the Colonial Secretary to the G.A. saying that Her Majesty the Empress would arrive the ...
Page 219
... arrived and their leader Count Frijs called on me , accompanied by his daughter . The Count was a tall , very good - looking Swede ; the Countess made my heart , chaste and chastened by two years in Hambantota , turn over in my breast ...
... arrived and their leader Count Frijs called on me , accompanied by his daughter . The Count was a tall , very good - looking Swede ; the Countess made my heart , chaste and chastened by two years in Hambantota , turn over in my breast ...
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... arrived in a motor - car two or three days later . Baron Axel Blixen was a middle - aged man with mutton - chop whiskers , watery eyes , and a distant resemblance to the Prince Consort . He was extremely nervous , and , holding my hand ...
... arrived in a motor - car two or three days later . Baron Axel Blixen was a middle - aged man with mutton - chop whiskers , watery eyes , and a distant resemblance to the Prince Consort . He was extremely nervous , and , holding my hand ...
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