Devonshire House was the townhouse of the Dukes of Devonshire in the 1700s and 1800s. In 1919, after WWI, the house was abandoned, like many other houses of the wealthy. In Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" (1923), Mrs. Dalloway passes the house on Piccadilly, prompting memories of its past splendor: "[Jack] hated frumps. "My God Clarissa! My God Clarissa!"—she could hear him now at the Devonshire House party, about poor Sylvia Hunt in her amber necklace and that dowdy old silk. Clarissa held herself upright for she had spoken aloud and now she was in Piccadilly, passing ... Devonshire House, without its gilt leopards."
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