Claridge’s (Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street)

"Claridge's is a 5-star hotel at the corner of Brook Street and Davies Street in Mayfair, London. It has long-standing connections with royalty" (Wikipedia). After WWI, business boomed because all the upper class people who had given up their London townhouses needed somewhere to stay. In Virigina Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" (1923), Mrs. Dalloway's own upper crust status is supported by the fact that she knows someone staying at Claridge's: "and Claridge's, where she must remember Dick wanted her to leave a card on Mrs Jepson or she would be gone. Rich Americans can be very charming."