Brown's Hotel — London, United Kingdom
About Brown's Hotel
The Kipling Suite is Brown's poshest, if not the most true to literary toil. Nevertheless, you will find authentic, signed Kipling letter attesting to his having finished The Jungle Book at Brown's, and a special edition Brown's Jungle Book with an illustration of the hotel for Suite visitors and often for children. You'll get some monkey and elephant sculpture and hand-painted greenery on the wallpeper, too, along with pith-helmet-inspired lampshades — but the suite's ambiance is an homage to Kipling, not original decor that inspired him. Kipling's desk has returned to the suite, however, and the space itself, if not the recent redecoration, is true to Kipling's time here. In fact, it was here at Brown's, while writing The Jungle Book , that he was discovered unconscious at his desk; Kipling would later succumb to this perforated ulcer that marked his last conscious moments that took p…
Literary significance
The Kipling Suite, and in general, literary ambiance throughout, like British literature in multiple rooms, daark wood paneling, low lighting, some photographs and references to Christia
Authors
- Rudyard Kipling
- Mark Twain
- Agatha Christie
- Stephen King
- Oscar Wilde
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- J.M. Barrie
- Bram Stoker
- Joseph Conrad
- W. Somerset Maugham
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- William Faulkner
Location
33 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BP, United Kingdom