Bond Street (Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street)

Bond Street, in the West End of London, has been known for its fashionable shops and prestigious retailers since the 18th century. This is Mrs. Dalloway's destination in Virginia Woolf's short story, "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" (1923). In one of the descriptions, Mrs. D imagines her ancestors walking up and down Bond Street: "A hundred years ago her great-great-grandfather, Seymour Parry, who ran away with Conway's daughter, had walked down Bond Street. Down Bond Street the Parrys had walked for a hundred years, and might have met the Dalloways (Leighs on the mother's side) going up." There are actually two section of it: Old Bond Street in the south and New Bond Street in the north. Currently it's one of the most desirable strips of real estate in the world.