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The Problem of 'Edwin Drood': A Study in the Methods of Dickens

Chapter 65: NOTES.
By Sir W. Robertson Nicoll
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A scholarly inquiry into an unfinished Dickens novel that assembles textual analysis, family and external testimony, manuscript evidence, and the published illustrations to weigh competing interpretations. The book's first part collects and critiques sources and outlines Dickens's narrative methods; the second part evaluates proposed solutions, asking whether the central young man was murdered, who the enigmatic Datchery might be, and how the plot was likely to end. The author reviews earlier theories, advances his own reconstruction, and provides critical notes and a bibliography.

 

Odgers, Dr. Blake, 177.

Old Curiosity Shop, The, 196.

Oliver Twist, 21, 25, 71, 195.

Our Mutual Friend, xviii, 25, 72, 83, 86, 179, 196.

 

Pall Mall Magazine, 28.

Pendennis, 199.

People, The, 43.

Perugini, Madame, 20, 28, 43, 70, 109–11, 127–8.

Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post, 94, 100.

Phineas Finn, 172.

Pickwick, 71.

Poe, Edgar Allan, xiv, 93–103, 190.

Proctor, Mr. R. A., ix, x, 118, 164; on the cover of Edwin Drood, 74, 77; was Drood murdered?, 114, 120, 131–2; the Bazzard-Datchery theory, 179.

Puzzle of Dickens’s Last Plot, The, x, 75, 139.

 

Recollections and Impressions, 162.

Rosebery, Lord, xiii.

 

Scott, Sir Walter, 159, 163, 184, 200.

Sellar, Mrs., 162.

Shakespeare, 180.

Shorter, Mr. Clement, xiv.

Skene, Mr., 185.

Sketches by Boz, 71.

Spectator, The, 69.

Stoddart, Miss J. T., xiv, 133, 139, 194.

Stone, R.A., Mr. Marcus, 72.

Studies in Prose and Poetry, 92, 104.

Swinburne, Mr., 91, 104.

 

Thackeray, 23.

Thomson, Mr. Hugh, xii, 73, 78, 128.

Times, The, 53, 127.

Trollope, Anthony, 198.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, The, 180.

 

Vase, Gillan, xi, 123.

 

Walters, Mr. Cuming, ix, x, xvii, 73, 123, 193; on the cover of Edwin Drood, 80; how Edwin was murdered, 132; Helena as Datchery, 149, 158; the Bazzard-Datchery theory, 179.

Watched by the Dead, ix.

Whitty, Mr. J. H., 95.

Willard, Mr., 45.

Woman in White, The, 90, 92, 167.

NOTES.

[63]  This was originally marked IX.

[67a]  Scored out in Dickens’s MS.

[67b]  Scored out in Dickens’s MS.

[67c]  Scored out in Dickens’s MS.

[67d]  Scored out in Dickens’s MS.

[90]  Charles Dickens as Editor, p. 386.

[91]  Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins, p. 123.

[92a]  Studies in Prose and Poetry.

[92b]  Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins, p. 103.

[104]  It was known to that thorough scholar, Mr. Swinburne.  See Studies in Prose and Poetry, p. 114.

[113]  Blackwood, May 1911, p. 672.

[119]  Morning Leader, 15th July 1905.

[122]  Cambridge Review, 9th March 1911.

[127]  1st June 1906.

[130]  24th February 1911.

[139]  The Puzzle of Dickens’s Last Plot, p. 10.

[163]  Recollections and Impressions, by E. M. Sellar, p. 64.

[164a]  Journal of Sir Walter Scott, vol. ii. p. 422.

[164b]  Cambridge Review, 9th March 1911.

[184]  Sir Walter Scott’s Journal, vol. ii. p. 131.

[185]  Sir Walter Scott’s Journal, vol. ii. p. 236.

[196]  The following may be quoted from Pickwick:

‘“Dismal Jenny?” inquired Jingle.

‘“Yes.”

‘Jingle shook his head.

‘“Clever rascal—queer fellow, hoaxing genius—Job’s brother.”

‘“Job’s brother!” exclaimed Mr. Pickwick.  “Well, now I look at him closely, there is a likeness.”’

[200]  Chapter xiii.