Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several subplots, and is told partly by the novels heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of Bleak House is a longrunning legal case in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which comes about because a testator has written several conflicting wills. In a preface to the 1853 first edition, Dickens claimed there were many actual precedents for his fictional case. One such was probably the Thellusson v Woodford case in which a will read in 1797 was contested and not determined until 1859. Though the legal profession criticised Dickenss satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement which culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s.

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