Novel written by Leonard Woolf, published 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon, but unusually written from the native point of view.
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The Village in the Jungle
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Leonard Woolf's Ceylon
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William Ford Robinson Stanley
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George du Maurier
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2 memorials
Arthur Clive Heward Bell
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2 memorials
Samuel Smiles
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1 memorial
James Elroy Flecker
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EC4, Pancras Lane
The Taxation plaque is the one nearest the camera. The St Benet blue plaque is on the far wall and the St Benet inscribed stone plaque i...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
C. J. Green
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1 memorial
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E1, Commercial Street, 76
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1 creator
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