“The one great principle of the English law,” Dickens tells us, “is to make business for itself.” No wonder, then, that one attorney in Bleak House gets called Vohles: a “vole” in a card game is a situation in which the dealer gets all the winning cards.

Dickens, for all his genius and wrath, was himself unable to undertake reforms, or protect clients, or draft fairer rules. He needed lawyers to achieve his vision of a just society.

Soon becoming bored, Dickens taught himself an extremely difficult short hand system and became a law reporter, transcribing cases in Doctors’ Commons, the Court of Chancery, and police courts. In 1939 he registered as a student barrister at Middle Temple but never followed through.

Charles Dickens was a British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social commentator who wrote such beloved classic novels as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.

Foremost, Bleak House is a romance — affairs of the heart for Esther, Ada, and Caddy figure very prominently — and it is a murder mystery, as well. Foremost, Bleak House is a romance — affairs of the heart for Esther, Ada, and Caddy figure very prominently — and it is a murder mystery, as well.

In Bleak House, passion is both important and dangerous, sometimes healthy and satisfying, sometimes harmful and destructive. Many characters recognize the importance of passion for a fulfilling life. For example, Mr. Jarndyce and Esther worry when Richard can’t find a career.

Jo eventually dies of smallpox when George takes him in. The law stationer Mr. Snagsby who feels sorry for Jo and often gives him money.

As a young woman, Honoria Barbary is engaged to Captain Hawdon. She becomes pregnant and has a baby. The baby is immediately taken away by her sister, who tells her that it died. She pays him to take her to the place he lived and died, where he got his freelance copying assignments, and where he was buried.

Lady Honoria Dedlock, fictional character in the novel Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens, a beautiful woman who harbours the secret that she bore an illegitimate daughter before her marriage to a wealthy baronet. Privilege and wealth have not fulfilled Lady Dedlock’s expectations of life.

It emphasizes the quatrain’s theme of the passage of time. It shows how time and prime share the same meaning. It makes the language easier to understand.

Jaggers essentially believes that there is no hope for Magwitch to be acquitted. He tells Pip that “the case must be over in five minutes when the witness was there, and that no power on earth could prevent its going against us”.