ABSTRACT
The presence of absence extends in the Good Housekeeping essays to their possible sources of inspiration. History is constructed in a non-conformist way by the author in the Good Housekeeping essays. On the whole, the essays offer a spatial tour of London sites that turns into a reflection on monuments as the chronotopic spatial depositories of the past; in other words, a reflection on time and history. For Virginia Woolf, history is never neutral. It is always a construction and a form of interpretation. To people abbeys and cathedrals with statues of great men posits great men as central to history and even as synonymous with history. It interprets their actions and achievements as great and worthy to be remembered. Such a decision comes from the top, from men in power, and as such, constructs history in a monolithic way. Similarly, Woolf avoids the Marxist position in the Good Housekeeping essays.
