Character Summary
Sir Leicester Dedlock: a proud baronet who is too proud for his own good Lady Dedlock: Sir Leicester's young, elegant, and attractive wife who has a mysterious past Mr. Tulkinghorn: the Dedlocks' inscrutable lawyer Miss Flite: an old, mad woman who believes the Chancery court will eventually reward her with a decision in her favor Esther Summerson: a ward of Mr. Jarndyce who narrates Bleak House in tandem with the author John Jarndyce: the inheritor of Bleak House and a man of independent means who assumes the role of guardian to Esther, Ada, and Richard Richard Carstone: John Jarndyce's and Ada Clare's cousin who is in love with Ada and who is a fool to believe his fortune could be made by solving the lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce Ada Clare: John Jarndyce's and Richard Carstone's c
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