Endnotes

1  “London Tower Mystery: A Raven Loses its Head,” The New York Times (New York, New York), Jul. 15, 1947.

2  “Master of Ravens,” Star (London, Greater London, England), Apr. 1953.

3  Boria Sax, City of Ravens: The Extraordinary History of London, the Tower, and Its Ravens (New York: Duckworth, 2011), 50.

4  Ibid, 75.

5  Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, ed. David Paroissien (1870; repr., New York: Penguin, 2002), 23.

6  Sax, City of Ravens, 24.

7  See John S. DeWind, “The Empire as Metaphor: England and the East in The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” Victorian Literature and Culture 21 (1993): 147-167; David Faulkner, “TheConfidence Man: Empire and the Deconstruction of Muscular Christianity in The Mystery ofEdwin Drood” in Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age, ed. Donald Hall(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994), 175-93; Miriam O’Kane Mara, “Sucking the Empire Dry:Colonial Critique in The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on VictorianFiction 32 (2002): 233-46; Hyungji Park, “‘Going to Wake up Egypt’: Exhibiting Empire in Edwin Drood,” Victorian Literature and Culture 30, no. 2 (2002): 529-50; Angelia Poon,Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period: Colonialism and the Politics of Performance(Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008), 99-124; Grace Moore, “Turkish Robbers, Lumps ofDelight, and the Detritus of Empire: The East Revisited in Dickens’s Late Novels,” CriticalSurvey 21, no. 1 (2009): 74-84; Martin Dubois, “Diverse Strains: Music and Religion in Dickens’s Edwin Drood,” Journal of Victorian Culture 16, no. 3 (December 2011): 347-62; and Marlene Tromp, “The Pollution of the East: Economic Contamination and Xenophobia in Little Dorrit and The Mystery of Edwin Drood” in Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia, ed. Marlene Tromp, Maria K. Bachman, and Heidi Kaufman (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2013), 27-55.

8  Dubois, “Diverse Strains,” 349.

9  Tromp, “The Pollution of The East,” 41-42.

10  Moore, ‘Turkish Robbers,” 85.

11  Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, ed. Adrian Poole (1864-65; repr., New York: Penguin, 1998), 13-17.

12  Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, “The Perils of Certain English Prisoners and Their Treasure in Women, Children, Silver, and Jewels,” Household Words Extra Christmas Number (December, 7 1857): 573-608.

13  Maria K. Bachman. “Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and the Perils of Imagined Others” in Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia, ed. Marlene Tromp, Maria K. Bachman, and Heidi Kaufman (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2013), 103.

14  Christopher Herbert, War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2009), 212.

15  Pierre Belon du Mans, L’historie De La Nature Des Oyseaux: Fac-Similé De L’édition De 1555 (1555; repr., Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 1997), 279.

16  E.L. Jones, “The Bird Pests of British Agriculture in Recent Centuries,” The Agricultural History Review 20 (1972): 111.

17  N.F Ticehurst, “On the Former Abundance of the Kite, Buzzard, and Raven in Kent,” British Birds: an illustrated magazine devoted to the birds on the British list (1920): 35.

18  Robert Smith, The Universal Directory for Taking Alive and Destroying Rats, and All Other Kinds of Four-Footed and Winged Vermin (1769, repr., Farmington Hills: Gale ECCO Print Editions, 2010): n.p.

19  Sax, City of Ravens, 48.

20  Ibid, 56.

21  Edward Impey and Geoffrey Parnell, The Tower of London: The Official Illustrated History (London, England: Merell, 2000), 111.

22  Sax, City of Ravens, 50.

23  Ibid, 50.

24  See Thomas Crane, London Town (1883; repr., London, England: British Library Facsimile Edition, 2011), 13; and J. O’Connor, “On the Tower of London,” The Pictorial World (London, Greater London, England), Jul. 14, 1883.

25  Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, ed. Clive Hurst (1841; repr., New York: Oxford UP, 2009), 62.

26  Charles Dickens, “Preface 1849” in Barnaby Rudge, ed. Clive Hurst (1841; repr., New York: Oxford UP, 2009), 5.

27  Ibid, 5.

28  Charles Dickens, “Perfect Felicity. In a Bird’s-Eye View,” Household Words 1, no. 2 (April 6, 1850): 36.

29  Charles Dickens. David Copperfield, ed. Jeremy Tambling (1849-50; repr., New York: Penguin, 2004), 17-18.

30  Bentham, Jeremy, The Works of Jeremy Bentham Published under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring, 4th vol. (1843; repr., Boston: Adamant, 2001), 60-64.

31  David Paroissien, “Appendix 4: Rochester as Cloisterham” in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, ed. David Paroissien (1870; repr., New York: Penguin, 2002), 308.

32  Dickens, Edwin Drood, 23.

33  Ibid, 12.

34  Ibid, 12.

35  Ibid, 11.

36  Ibid, 11.

37  Ibid, 53.

38  Ibid, 23.

39  Ibid, 137.

40  Ibid, 152-53.

41  Ibid, 72.

42  Ibid, 153.

43  Ibid, 153.

44  Ibid, 165.

45  Ibid, 270-71.

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