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
Female artist's novel from one's youth to adulthood and deals with one's emotional and personal development on the way to artistic fulfillment. As opposed to Kunstlerroman, female artist's novel focuses only on a female writer, who besides being a capable artist and creator of her own reality, is often to perform many social roles simultaneously(e.g. the role of a wife, a mother, home guardian, etc.) to meet expectations the society imposes on her. The genre itself is more gendered due to its focus on a female position. Female artist's novel Female artist's novel is a literary subtype of Kunstlerroman which can be defined