"I tried to make Fred come with me to-day," Constance was saying; "but he is dining with some kindred spirits at the Café Royal, and then going on to the Gaiety. He said there would be no time." ch. 22

Eastbourne is where Constance goes after it is announced that Lucy was to marry Frank. Phyllis also took a trip to Eastbourne to visit the Devonshires' Place. Eastbourne is a well-off, resort town in England. It has large, sea-side cliffs. It was founded on the basis of a railroad. The town's development was founded based off of the Duke of Devonshire.

Alternative name for Paddington Underground Station (as opposed to the regular train station). Some of the characters in Amy Levy's The Romance of a Shop (1888) use the underground.

"The sisters embraced long and silently, and in a few minutes Lucy was steaming westward in a third-class carriage, and Gertrude was making her way through the fog to Praed Street station." (chapter 18)

In The Romance of a Shop, Phyllis and Sidney Darrel planned to leave together on a train to Italy via the Charing Cross station.

This was where Darrel discovered that Phyllis was ill, collapsing in a"fit of coughing" (Levy, Chapter 20), and he took her to St. John's Wood.

Harley Street was noted as a location for one of the events Frank was attending. As Phyllis was looking out the window, she said, “‘There is a light in Frank Jermyn's window—the top one,’ she cried; ‘I suppose he is dressing. He told me he had an early dance in Harley Street. I wish I were going to a dance.’” This quote can be found in Chapter VIII, before the romance between Lucy and Frank was so concrete.

• Located on Regent Street in London, Cafe Royal was an epicenter for fashionable society. Many great minds have come to discuss ideas here througout history. In The Romance of a Shop, this is where Fred spends his free time, socializing with fasionable society, especially when trying to escape seeing Lucy after she broke his heart.

 Turnham Green is a park in Chiswick, London, and was established in 1841.  This popular park is most well known for the Christ Church, Chiswick Town Hall, and the

Australia is a location mentioned in The Romance of a Shop. In the book, Edward Marsh went to Australia to find work and became wealthy while he was there. Australia was experiencing a period of prosperity in the late 19th century due to the Gold Rush, which lasted from 1851 to 1871, and the subsequent Land Boom, during which the population increased rapidly and many trade unions were established.

Africa, specifically South Africa, is the site of the First Boer war. This is the source of the fighting that is constantly mentioned in Romance of a Shop. More importantly, this is where Frank goes to illustrate the war for a newspaper in order to increase his prospects. 

"'A woman shot at Turnham Green,'" cried Phyllis, glancing down a column of miscellaneous items, while the lamplight fell on her bent brown head. "'More fighting in Africa.'” (Chapter 10)