Enna is a city located in Sicily, Italy. It resides on a steep plateau over the Italian countryside, making it the provincial capital with the highest elevation in Italy. Enna was originally Greek land when it was ruled by Dionysuis I during 397 B.C. Greek influence can still be seen in the city's historical ruins, which include a temple that was once a place of worship for Demeter. However, it came under Roman influence during the year 258 B.C.

Brighton is a seaside resort in the south of England, roughly directly south of London. The London and Brighton Railway, established in 1841, made it an option to take day trips there. In Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" (1923), thinks of this as somewhere a shopgirl might be able to get away for a vacation, but not a particularly good vacation: "She has a fortnight at Brighton. In some stuffy lodging. The landlady takes the sugar."

China and Britain have historically had strained, even antagnoistic, relations. Mrs. Dalloway, in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street," references China as something her husband mentions as a way of trying to reform her impulsive giving: "she remembered how on their honeymoon Dick had shown her the folly of giving impulsively. It was much more important, he said, to get trade with China. Of course he was right." Mr. Dalloway is here upholding a binary between male rationalism (the world of commerce and trade relations) and female emotionality (impulsive giving).

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.

Mrs. Dalloway, in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" (1923) walks through Westminster on her way to Bond Street, and accidentally passing it, end up by what is claimed to be the oldest bookshop in the UK: "and now—she had passed Bond Street—she was by Hatchard's book shop."

St. James' Palace is no longer home to the monarch, but does usually house several of the minor royals and is used as a ceremonial meeting place. Mrs. Dalloway, in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" (1923), passes by it in her walk through Westminster: There was St James palace; like a child's game with bricks."

"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.

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.