Esther, Ada, and Richard become close friends, and Ada and Richard fall in love. They are thought to be likey beneficiaries of a large inheritance, but the endless nature of the proceedings, and the delays of the Court of Chancery, make this very unlikely. Jarndyce, as wards of the long complicated Chancery suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce. John Jarndyce, a kindly man who educates her and brings her to his house to be the companion of his other ward, Ada Clare.Īda Clare and her distant cousin Richard Carstone live together with Mr. After this aunt dies Esther is given into the care of a guardian, Mr. This child, Esther Summerson, has been raised by her godmother, who she finds out is really her aunt. She hides a terrible secret - before she met Sir Leicester she bore an illegitimate child with her lover Captain Hawdon. His beautiful wife lives with him, and is the apex of the fashionable world. He has a home in rural Lincolnshire called Chesney Wold. Sir Leicester Dedlock is introduced as the height of British Aristocracy. The title of the book is more indicative of the social ills and hypocrisy that Dickens addresses in it. That said, the Bleak Houses in Bleak House are not bleak at all. The term " Bleak House" refers to two different houses - the one owned originally by John Jarndyce, to which Ada, Esther, and Richard come to live with him, and to the second Bleak House, built for Esther and her husband at the end of the book.
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