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Diamonds of the Dustheap

Going back to "A Writer's Diary"

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Steve Donoghue
Nov 08, 2025
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Driven by circumstances, avid for enjoyment, I turned last night to A Writer’s Diary, a selection of Virginia Woolf’s diary entries dealing with writing and reading just generally the bookish life. The book was assembled by Woolf’s husband Leonard, and he brought a great deal of grace and discrimination to the task, actually curating the result into something that stands as a gem on its own, quite apart from the much larger mass of the diaries from which it was taken.

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