The Pub in Literature: England's Altered State, by Steven Earnshaw
Edwin Drood (1870, unfinished)
(under construction)
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| The Crozier
(Unnamed) - The Crown, Rochester (and in Pickwick Papers). Dating
back to perhaps C14 (see entry in Pickwick
Papers) 'The inn was rebuilt in 1864, and has been identified as
the "Crozier" of Edwin Drood, where Datchery, on his first
arrival in the town "announced himself ... as an idle dog living on
his means ... as he stood with his back to the empty fire-place, waiting
for his fried sole, veal cutlet and pint of sherry."' (Matz, Pickwick,
p.31)
The Tilted Wagon (Unnamed) - The Coach and Horses, Stood Hill, Rochester. Extant. The Traveller's Twopenny Maidstone Road, Rochester. Wood's Hotel Furnival's Inn, London. Dickens would have probably known this place. Furnival's Inn etc. demolished 1898. |