I know it's ages away, but it looks like there is a bit more fairytale stuff -- on Edwin Drood. I really like this topic, and I found this book (might be useful nearer the time): http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tIs9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA341&dq=fairy+tale+dickens#v=onepage&q=fairy%20tale%20dickens&f=false
I know it's ages away, but it looks like there is a bit more fairytale stuff -- on Edwin Drood. I really like this topic, and I found this book (might be useful nearer the time):
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Thank's Alice: just to repeat that, embedding the link: that's Geoffrey Thurley's 1976 study The Dickens myth: its Genesis and Structure, available on Googlebooks. Interesting stuff.
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