Cynthia Zarin on Virginia Woolf’s Diaries and the Rise of Facism in the Los Angeles Review of Books

VIRGINIA WOOLF BEGAN KEEPING a diary in 1897, when she was 14. At the time of her death in 1941, at 59, her diaries numbered over 30 handwritten volumes. A collection of excerpts, compiled by her husband, Leonard Woolf, as A Writer’s Diary, appeared in 1953. In the 1970s, the diaries in their entirety began to appear, beautifully edited and annotated by Anne Olivier Bell, the wife of Woolf’s nephew, Quentin Bell. 

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