Book, Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Os: Diary 2 (1919-1923)[LS]

In the second volume of her complete diaries, which covers the period from 1919 to 1923, Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf establish themselves as editors. The two began to consistently publish translations from Russian, like Tolstoy. Virginia begins to learn Russian. She writes and publishes “Jacob's Room” and begins to become known in certain circles as one of the greatest literary promises of her time. Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield's friendship begins to suffer serious strain, Virginia is unable to disguise her ambivalence between the affection and spite she feels for her friend – after all, Mansfield was praised in the press. Virginia begins writing “The Common Reader” and “Mrs. Dalloway.” Finally, in his words, he finds his literary voice and the path to follow in his literature. Read Joyce and Proust. All this will certainly influence her. He strengthens ties with TS Eliot, whose Hogarth Press publishes “Desolate Land”. The process of printing this long poem that was a watershed in modernist poetry greatly influences Mrs. Dalloway's writing. From a formal point of view, the diary begins to appear more and more as a terrain for experimentation. There are more transcribed dialogues, more purposefully made portraits of people, more experiments with graphic signs in the narratives she makes of her days or her thoughts. And Virginia Woolf meets and begins to have a relationship with what would be one of her greatest loves, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West.