There are no entries in VW's diary between 9 April and 11 June 1936. On 8 April she posted the final pages of her revised typescript of The Years [...]
These two months-and indeed the months to come—when VW's underlying anxiety and depression over The Years produced a state of mind and body which brought her close to suicide, were later recalled by LW [Leonard Woolf] as a ›terrifying time‹.

Ann Olivier Bell

Thursday 11 June

I can only, after 2 months, make this brief note, to say at last after 2 months dismal & worse, almost catastrophic illness—never been so near the precipice to my own feeling since 1913—I'm again on top.

Sunday 21 June

[...] I am living so constrainedly; so repressedly: I cant make notes of life.

Tuesday 23 June

A good day—a bad day—so it goes on. Few people can be so tortured by writing as I am. Only Flaubert I think.

virginia woolf, diary

There are no entries in VW's diary between 23 June and 30 October 1936.
Her state of health remained precarious, and the pressures of life [...]