Bleak House (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Dickens
- First Published: 1852
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social morality
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
- Setting: London, Lincolnshire, and Hertfordshire, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Social issues, England or English people, Blackmail, Lower classes, Inheritance or succession, Lawyers, Moral conditions, Mysteries, Victorian era or Victorianism, Courts or courtrooms
- Locales: London, England, Hertfordshire, England, Lincolnshire, England
Characters Discussed
John Jarndyce, the unmarried, aging owner of Bleak House and a party in the famous and protracted Chancery suit of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce. Generous to a fault, he makes two young cousins, Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, his wards in the hope that they will fall in love and fill his ancestral home with renewed life. He also takes into his home an orphan, Esther Summerson, as a companion to Ada. He himself falls in love with Esther, but when he learns that she is in love with Allan Woodcourt, a young surgeon, he releases her from her promise to him and...
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Charles Dickens (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Charles Dickens (Censorship)Charles Dickens (Dictionary of World Biography)Charles Dickens (Short Fiction)Charles Dickens (Long Fiction)Charles Dickens (Mystery and Detective Fiction)
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