Langham Hotel

Ouida , with her mother , moved from her previous London home to a main-floor suite at the city's fashionable Langham Hotel , where she entertained in a salon style which was probably inspired by George Sand .

William Allingham met Ouida at a Langham Hotel dinner, provoking the oft-recited sketch of her as dressed in green silk, with a sinister clever face, her hair down, small hands and feet, and a voice...

In London, Ouida took a suite at her old home, the Langham Hotel , where in one night she entertained Robert Browning , Oscar Wilde , Robert Lytton , and Lord Ronald Gower ...

She did not, however, have enough money. Oscar Wilde took it upon himself to organize a fundraising drive to discharge her unpaid bill at the Langham Hotel . As late as June, Vernon Lee reported...