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===Miscellaneous=== * 1919. In [[Thornton W. Burgess]]'s ''Burgess Bird Book for Children'', "Jenny Wren" is a leading character. * 1922. [[T. S. Eliot]]'s poem ''[[The Waste Land]]'' had, as a working title, "He Do the Police in Different Voices", an allusion to something said by Betty Higden about Sloppy. * 1920s. Sir [[Harry Johnston]] wrote a sequel to ''Our Mutual Friend'', titled ''The Veneerings'', published in the early 1920s. * 2004–2010. In the television show ''[[Lost (2004 TV series)|Lost]]'', [[Desmond Hume]] saves a copy of ''Our Mutual Friend,'' the last book he intends to read before he dies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Live Together, Die Alone Recap|url=http://lost.about.com/od/episoderecaps/a/2x231.htm|access-date=2014-04-27|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427231750/http://lost.about.com/od/episoderecaps/a/2x231.htm|archive-date=27 April 2014}}</ref> It is most prominently featured in the season 2 finale, ''[[Live Together, Die Alone]]''. The same character later names his sailboat 'Our Mutual Friend'. * 2005. [[Paul McCartney]] released a song "[[Jenny Wren]]" on his ''[[Chaos and Creation in the Backyard]]'' album about the character of Jenny Wren. * 2016. The video game ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' included additional missions titled "The Darwin and Dickens Conspiracy". One of the memories in this extra game play is called 'Our Mutual Friend' and includes slightly altered character names and situations similar to the novel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://uk.ign.com/wikis/assassins-creed-syndicate/Our_Mutual_Friend |title=Our Mutual Friend |date=16 November 2015 |publisher=Assassin's Creed Syndicate |access-date=9 April 2018}}</ref> * Lizzie Hexam, extracted from the book and transported into the real world, was a main character in the 2009–2015 [[Vertigo Comics]] series ''[[The Unwritten]]''.<ref name=Deseret>[https://www.deseret.com/2011/4/13/20185029/the-unwritten-bridges-fiction-to-reality ‘The Unwritten’ bridges fiction to reality], by the [[Associated Press]], in ''[[Deseret News]]''; published 13 April 2011; retrieved 26 April 2022</ref> * 2024. The play ''London Tide'', presented by the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] in London, is based on ''Our Mutual Friend''. It is adapted by [[Ben Power]] with songs by Ben Power and [[PJ Harvey]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Akbar |first=Arifa |date=2024-04-18 |title=London Tide review – Dickens and PJ Harvey team up for a melodrama as murky as the Thames |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/18/london-tide-review-dickens-pj-harvey-national-theatre-mutual-friend |access-date=2024-05-25 |work=The Guardian|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
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