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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Page 34
... town of the Province , and there the Government Agent had his Residence . Districts were in the charge of an Assistant Government Agent ( the A.G.A. ) , a civil servant of anything from six to twenty years ' service . The A.G.A. had his ...
... town of the Province , and there the Government Agent had his Residence . Districts were in the charge of an Assistant Government Agent ( the A.G.A. ) , a civil servant of anything from six to twenty years ' service . The A.G.A. had his ...
Page 48
... town . Europe has made a deep and wide impression upon the face of all the big towns of Ceylon which I know except upon Jaffna ; in Colombo , Kandy , or Galle , the buildings , the private houses , the roads and gardens are Europeanized ...
... town . Europe has made a deep and wide impression upon the face of all the big towns of Ceylon which I know except upon Jaffna ; in Colombo , Kandy , or Galle , the buildings , the private houses , the roads and gardens are Europeanized ...
Page 49
... town is the stronger because the population of Tamils is so thick on the ground in the Jaffna peninsula that in many places one village has joined up to another and to what is now the municipal area of Jaffna town . The consequence was ...
... town is the stronger because the population of Tamils is so thick on the ground in the Jaffna peninsula that in many places one village has joined up to another and to what is now the municipal area of Jaffna town . The consequence was ...
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