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San Diego New York London  \nCopyright 1954, 1953 by Leonard Woolf Copyright renewed 1982, 1981 by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.  \nRequests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be mailed to the following address: Permissions Department, Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Woolf, Virginia (Stephen) 1882–1941.  \nA writer's diary.  \n1. Woolf, Virginia (Stephen) 1882–1941.  \nI. Title.  \n[PR6045 .072Z5 1973] 828' .9' 1203[B] 73–5737 ISBN 0-15-602791-7  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nE G I J H F  \nCONTENTS  \nPREFACE vii  \nGLOSSARY OF NAMES USED IN THE DIARY xi  \n1918 1  \n1919 7  \n1920 22  \n1921 29  \n1922 41  \n1923 54  \n1924 61  \n1925 70  \n1926 84  \n1927 102  \n1928 120  \n1929 138  \n1930 149  \n1931 161  \n1932 173  \n1933 186  \n1934 208  \n1935 228  \n1936 254  \n1937 265  \n1938 278  \n1939 299  \n1940 311  \n1941 348  \nGENERAL INDEX 353 INDEX OF BOOKS 355  \nPREFACE  \nIn 1915 Virginia Woolf began regularly to write a diary. She continued to do so until 1941 and the last entry is four days before her death. She did not write it regularly every day. There are sometimes entries daily for several days; more usually there is an entry every few days and then there will perhaps be a gap ofa week or two. But the diary gives for 27 years a consecutive record of what she did, of the people whom she saw, and particularly of what she thought about those people, about herself, about life, and about the books she was writing or hoped to write. She wrote it on blank sheets of paper (8¼″ by 10½″, i.e. technically large post quarto) . At first the sheets were clipped together with loose-leaf rings, but all the later diaries are in bound volumes. We used to have the sheets bound up in paper over boards, and the cover paper is nearly always one of the coloured, patterned Italian papers which we frequently used for binding books of poetry published by us in The Hogarth Press and of which she was very fond. We used to buy the paper for the sheets and have it bound up in books ready for her to use, and she wrote her novels in this kind of book as well as her diary. When she died, she left 26 volumes of diary written in this kind of book in her own hand.  \nThe diary is too personal to be published as a whole during the lifetime of many people referred to in it. It is, I think, nearly always a mistake to publish extracts from diaries or letters, particularly if the omissions have to be made in order to protect the feelings or reputations ofthe living. Theomissions almost always distort or conceal the true character of the diarist or letter-writer and produce spiritually what an Academy picture does materially, smoothing out the wrinkles, warts, frowns, and asperities. At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer, because, as Virginia Woolf herself remarks somewhere in these diaries, one gets into the habit of recording one particular kind of mood—irritation or misery, say—and of not writing one's diary when one is feeling the opposite. The portrait is therefore from the start unbalanced, and, if someone then deliberately removes another characteristic, it may well become a mere caricature.  \nNevertheless the present book is composed of extracts from Virginia Woolf's diaries. She used her diary partly, in the normal way of diarists, to record what she did and what she thought about people, life, and the universe. But she also used it in a very individual way as a writer and artist. 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