Which is the only novel by Charles Dickens to have a female narrator (Esther Summerson)?
Esther Summerson BBC TV series, Esther is portrayed by Anna Maxwell Martin. An infant Esther also appears briefly in the 2015 series, "Dickensian". Esther Summerson Esther Summerson is a character in "Bleak House", a novel written by Charles Dickens. She also serves as one of the novel's two narrators; half the book is written from her perspective. it is the only example of a double narrative in Dickens and the first person female voice may have been influenced by the example of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre", published in 1847. As an "orphaned" baby, Esther was brought up in an atmosphere of moralistic
Esther Summerson which results in facial scarring, and learns the identity of her mother, who dies not long after. She becomes engaged to Mr. Jarndyce, her guardian, but ultimately marries a doctor named Allan Woodcourt who had fallen in love with her over the course of the novel. From her first introduction as narrator, Esther is firmly established to be a shrewd but damaged and self-deprecating character; her first line contains the claim that she has difficulty writing her story because she knows she is not clever, and she repeats this claim to both her childhood doll and her new guardian Mr.