The years covered by the third volume of the diaries are the most fruitful period of Virginia Woolf's life. It was at this time that she created one of her masterpieces, On the Lighthouse, and the first draft of the novel Waves, and also published Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando and the famous essay Own Room. As an author of diaries, Virginia reveals all aspects of her life, from household and social trivia to the more complex theme of her love for Vita Sackville West or, at the end of the volume, Ethel Smith's love for her. She shares other intimate thoughts: about marriage and childbirth, about death, about choosing clothes, about the secrets of her mind. From time to time Virginia refers to the chronicle, describing, for example, the General strike, and also makes sketches of portraits of Thomas Hardy, George Moore, U. B. Yates and Edith Sitwell . For the first time in the Russian language .