![]() The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens' Unfinished Novel and Our Endless Attempts to End It-2018 ![]() These wishes went unheeded as the mourning nation buried him with honor in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey ( Forster, 1899, v. Dickens' DeathĬharles Dickens wished to be buried without pomp in the small graveyard under Rochester Castle wall or in one of the small country churchyards in Cobham or Shorne. 28).Īn original solution to the Drood mystery. ![]() The Queen never took him up on the offer ( Wilson, 1974, p. Dickens, in a letter to the Queen's advisor, Arthur Helps, and enclosing the first monthly number of Edwin Drood, asked him to tell the Queen that if she were interested to know a little more of the mystery in advance of her subjects he would be happy to divulge his plans ( Hartley, 2012, p. While writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens had a private interview with Queen Victoria on March 9, 1870, less than three months before his death. ![]()
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