Published 1852–1853 | Scene: | London and the Country | | Time: | 1832 to 1852 | CHARACTERS | Mr. Jarndyce | Master of Bleak House | | Mr. Boythorn | His friend | | Sir Leicester Dedlock | An aged nobleman | | Mr. Boythorn's neighbor | | Lady Dedlock | His wife | | Mr. Tulkinghorn | His lawyer | | Captain Hawdon | A dissipated and poverty-stricken copyist
in London, known as "Nemo" | | Esther Summerson | Mr. Jarndyce's ward | | In reality a daughter of Captain Hawdon and Lady Dedlock | Ada Clare
Richard Carstone | | Wards of Mr. Jarndyce | | Vholes | Richard's lawyer | | Mrs. Rouncewell | Sir Leicester's housekeeper | | "Mr. George" | Proprietor of a London shooting-gallery | | Her son | | Hortense | Lady Dedlock's French maid | | Miss Flite | A little, old, demented woman | | Mrs. Jellyby | A lady greatly interested in the welfare
of the heathen | | Caddy Jellyby | Her daughter | | Harold Skimpole | A trifler with life, preferring to
live at other people's expense | | Allan Woodcourt | A young surgeon | | Grandfather Smallweed | A money-lender | | Mrs. Smallweed | His crazy wife | | Mr. Turveydrop | The proprietor of a dancing school
and a model of deportment | | Prince Turveydrop | His son. Later, Caddy's husband | | Joe | A crossing sweeper | | Krook | A dealer in rags and old bottles | | "Lady Jane" | His cat |
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