Aside from Esther herself and John Jarndyce, the suit pulls in his young relatives, Ada Clare and Richard Carstone Sir Leicester Dedlock and his wife, Lady Honoria Dedlock the Dedlocks’ lawyer, Mr. Jarndyce, narrates her own involvement with the parties of the suit and those connected to them, whilst the omniscient narrator tells the remainder. In particular, Esther Summerson, an orphan who becomes a ward of the present Mr. Jarndyce and Jarndyce is, in fact, the linchpin and crux of the novel, being what ties its many characters and plots together. When the novel begins in London circa 1830, the suit in question, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, has continued for generations, lost all meaning, and become a labyrinthine amalgamation of red tape and legal costs.
Half recounted by the heroine, Esther Summerson, and half by an omniscient narrator, Bleak House is fairly complex, with many characters and sub-plots all tied together by a particular Chancery suit - that is, a civil suit dealing with equity rather than law. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall." - Bleak House, Chapter 1: In Chanceryīleak House is a major novel of Charles Dickens and was published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853.
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