Virginia Woolf’s diary, 1923

I’m over peevish in private, partly in order to assert myself. I am a great deal interested suddenly in my book. I want to bring in the despicableness of people…

I took up this book with a kind of idea that I might say something about my writing—which was prompted by glancing at what K. M. said about her writing in The…

The question I want to debate here is the question of my essays: and how to make them into a book. The brilliant idea has just come to me of embedding them in Otway…

I was called, I think, to cut wood; we have to shape logs for the stove, for we sit in the lodge every night and my goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the…

And I’m slightly dashed by the reception of my Conrad conversation, which has been purely negative. No one has mentioned it. I don’t think M. or B. quite approved.…