Download or read book The Companion to 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' written by Wendy S. Jacobson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1986, explores the allusions in Dickens’s work, such as current events and religious and intellectual issues, social customs, topography, costume, furniture and transportation. Together with an analysis of Dickens’s imaginative responses to his culture, and their place in the genesis and composition of the text, this book is a full-scale, thoroughgoing annotation that The Mystery of Edwin Drood requires.