Bleak House

cover of serial edition

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, 1852/3. It features the long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce.

This novel helped support a judicial reform movement which led to legal reform in the 1870s.

Bleak House Media

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  Frontispiece, Chesney Wold, home of Sir Leicester Dedlock

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  Consecrated Ground, Bleak House (1852-3) plate

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  The Little Old Lady, Bleak House (1852-3) plate

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  Tom All Alone's, Bleak House (1852-3) plate

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  Bleak House in Broadstairs, Kent, where Dickens wrote David Copperfield and other novels