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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... ment in the Exchange and Mart , a paper which was of absorbing interest to us in my boyhood . In term time I used to take him with me to Cambridge , where he was more a liability than an asset , for I was not allowed to have him with me ...
... ment in the Exchange and Mart , a paper which was of absorbing interest to us in my boyhood . In term time I used to take him with me to Cambridge , where he was more a liability than an asset , for I was not allowed to have him with me ...
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... ment servants , some wealthy Tamils , and an old retired Government Agent , Sir William Twynam . But the third European enclave is the most impressive . It is a relic of the Portuguese occupation . The northern end of the main street ...
... ment servants , some wealthy Tamils , and an old retired Government Agent , Sir William Twynam . But the third European enclave is the most impressive . It is a relic of the Portuguese occupation . The northern end of the main street ...
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... ment was the disorder and ill - feeling which had arisen in the past and during the course of its unfortunate history . According to tradition , after being kept for 800 years in India , it was brought to Ceylon in the fourth century ...
... ment was the disorder and ill - feeling which had arisen in the past and during the course of its unfortunate history . According to tradition , after being kept for 800 years in India , it was brought to Ceylon in the fourth century ...
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