V «Dnevnikah russkoy zhenschiny», kotorye Elizaveta Dyakonova (1874 1902) vela s 11 let i do samoy smerti, otrazilas tselaya epoha: semeynye otnosheniya, ucheba, problemy zhenskogo vysshego obrazovaniya, zhizn molodezhi i studenchestva 1890-h godov, lichnye perezhivaniya, portrety druzey i formirovanie zhenskogo dvizheniya. Perezhivaniya i trudnosti na puti vzrosleniya, opisannye Dyakonovoy, ostayutsya blizkimi chitatelyam dazhe spustya stoletie.