Bleak House Bleak House Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and the story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of "Bleak House" is a long-running legal case, "Jarndyce and Jarndyce", which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills. Dickens uses this case to satirise the English judicial system. Though the legal profession criticised Dickens' satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, which
Dickens in America About 16% of the 4,000 cadets are female. Miriam meets a few of them. She is there when they get word that a recent grad was killed in Iraq. Dickens was concerned about America possibly dragging the UK into war. “If the Americans don't embroil us in a war before long it will not be their fault. What with their swagger and bombast, what with their claims for indemnification, ... I have strong apprehensions.” Dickens visited a Shaker Village. He was very curious to see one of their services. Usually they wanted visitors, but Dickens had the misfortune to be