Questions tagged [bleak-house]
Questions related to the novel Bleak House (1852 – 1853) by the English author Charles Dickens. Use this tag with the [charles-dickens] tag.
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What does "well may" mean in "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens?
Well may the court be dim, with wasting candles here and there; well may the fog hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the stained-glass windows lose their colour and admit no light ...
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What is the connection between the Bleak House in Broadstairs and the one in Dickens's novel?
Dickens's novel Bleak House shares its name with an actual house in the English seaside town of Broadstairs. Dickens actually stayed in that house for a while, and wrote David Copperfield there, but ...
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Was Esther Summerson pleasantly surprised or otherwise at being presented the housekeeping keys of Bleak House?
In Chapter VI of Bleak House, Esther Summerson, Ada Clare and Richard Carstone are just arrived at Bleak House and introduced to John Jarndyce. A conversation touching on the Jellybys, the east wind, ...
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Meaning of ‘matted well’ and ‘silk gowns’ in Bleak House
I’ve come across the following passage in Chapter 1 of Bleak House by Charles Dickens:
On such an afternoon the various solicitors in the cause, some two or three of whom have inherited it from their ...
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What is the name of the writing style in "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens? Why is that style used?
In Bleak House by Charles Dickens, the viewpoint frequently changes from Esther Summerson, or first-person, to third person. What is this style known as?
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