Great Expectations a reference to a "knowing man", a possible sketch of Bentley Drummle. Another evokes a house full of "Toadies and Humbugs", foreshadowing the visitors to Satis House in chapter 11. Margaret Cardwell discovered the "premonition" of "Great Expectations" from a 25 September 1855 letter from Dickens to W. H. Wills, in which Dickens speaks of recycling an "odd idea" from the Christmas special "A House to Let" and "the pivot round which my next book shall revolve." The "odd idea" concerns an individual who "retires to an old lonely house…resolved to shut out the world and hold no communion with
Eddie Dickens including Mad Uncle Jack, Even Madder Aunt Maud and her stuffed stoat named Malcolm (or according to Mad Uncle Jack, Sally). He also has an identical cousin named Fabian, but is unaware of his existence until the fifth book, "Horrendous Habits". Eddie’s father is the only one to know that they are all simply characters in Mr Ardagh’s books. Eddie Dickens Eddie Dickens is the lead character in six books by British author Philip Ardagh: and a number of Christmas short-stories specially written for Philip Ardagh's website. The character first appeared in print in the UK in 2000, but originally