The Langham — London, United Kingdom
About The Langham
The Langham has a lengthy literary history, and you don't have to book a room to partake. That's because its best remembered for the dinner where editor Joseph Marshall Stoddart green-lit Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books and Oscar Wilde's Dorian Grey . Nevertheless, the hotel bills itself as London's first Grand Hotel, and as such, encapsulates a world in which Victorian aristocracy might move. It features in Conan Doyle's "Scandal in Bohemia" as the residence of Count von Kramm while he carries on an illicit afair, for instance. And in Conan Doyle's 1911 story, 'The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax', Holmes inquires about the address of a character who simply replies that the "Langham Hotel will find me." Additionally, Dickens also wrote about the depressing truth of the hotel in his London Guide , highlighting its landmark-status in Victorian-era London. He said that the…
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1C Portland Place, London W1B 1JA, United Kingdom