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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Charles Dickens: A Brief Chronology
• A Note on the Text
• Bleak House
• I.—In Chancery
• II.—In Fashion
• III.—A Progress
• IV.—Telescopic Philanthropy
• V.—A Morning Adventure
• VI.—Quite at Home
• VII.—The Ghost’s Walk
• VIII.—Covering a Multitude of Sins
• IX.—Signs and Tokens
• X.—The Law-Writer
• XI.—Our Dear Brother
• XII.—On the Watch
• XIII.—Esther’s Narrative
• XIV.—Deportment
• XV.—Bell Yard
• XVI.—Tom-All-Alone’s
• XVII.—Esther’s Narrative
• XVIII.—Lady Dedlock
• XIX.—Moving On
• XX.—A New Lodger
• XXI.—The Smallweed Family
• XXII.—Mr. Bucket
• XXIII.—Esther’s Narrative
• XXIV.—An Appeal Case
• XXV.—Mrs. Snagsby Sees It All
• XXVI.—Sharpshooters
• XXVII.—More Old Soldiers Than One
• XXVIII.—The Ironmaster
• XXIX.—The Young Man
• XXX.—Esther’s Narrative
• XXXI.—Nurse and Patient
• XXXII.—The Appointed Time
• XXXIII.—Interlopers
• XXXIV.—A Turn of the Screw
• XXXV.—Esther’s Narrative
• XXXVI.—Chesney Wold
• XXXVII.—Jarndyce and Jarndyce
• XXXVIII.—A Struggle
• XXXIX.—Attorney and Client
• XL.—National and Domestic
• XLI.—In Mr. Tulkinghorn’s Room
• XLII.—In Mr. Tulkinghorn’s Chambers
• XLIII.—Esther’s Narrative
• XLIV.—The Letter and the Answer
• XLV.—In Trust
• XLVI.—Stop Him!
• XLVII.—Jo’s Will
• XLVIII.—Closing In
• XLIX.—Dutiful Friendship
• L.—Esther’s Narrative
• LI.—Enlightened
• LII.—Obstinacy
• LIII.—The Track
• LIV.—Springing a Mine
• LV.—Flight
• LVI.—Pursuit
• LVII.—Esther’s Narrative
• LVIII.—A Wintry Day and Night
• LIX.—Esther’s Narrative
• LX.—Perspective
• LXI.—A Discovery
• LXII.—Another Discovery
• LXIII.—Steel and Iron
• LXIV.—Esther’s Narrative
• LXV.—Beginning the World
• LXVI.—Down in Lincolnshire
• LXVII.—The Close of Esther’s Narrative
• Appendix A: Dickens’s Working Notes for Bleak House
• Appendix B: The Reception of Bleak House
• 1. From The Spectator (September 1853)
• 2. From The Illustrated London News (24 September 1853)
• 3. From The Athenaeum (17 September 1853)
• 4. From The Eclectic Review (December 1853)
• 5. From Bentley’s Miscellany (8 October 1853)
• 6. From The Examiner (8 October 1853)
• 7. From The Rambler (January 1854)
• 8. From Charlotte Brontë, Letter to George Smith (11 March 1852)
• 9. From J.S. Mill, Letter to Harriet Taylor (20 March 1854)
• 10. From G.H. Lewes, Letters to Dickens (1852)
• Appendix C: The Role and Status of Women
• 1. Marriage and the Law: From William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69)
• 2. Support for Conventional Views
• (a) From Charles Dickens, “Sucking Pigs,” Household Words (November 1851)
• (b) From “The Laws Concerning Women,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (April 1856)
• (c) From Margaret Oliphant, “The Condition of Women,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (February 1858)
• 3. Opposition to Conventional Views
• (a) From the Review in Foreign Quarterly Review of The Education of Mothers of Families (1842)
• (b) From Harriet Taylor, “The Enfranchisement of Women,” The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review (1851)
• (c) From Jessie Boucherett, Endowed Schools (1862)
• 4. Personal Testimonies from Women
• (a) From Jane Welsh Carlyle, Letter to John Forster (c. February 1844)
• (b) From Elizabeth Gaskell, Letter to Eliza Fox (12 February 1850)
• (c) From Mary Taylor, Letter to Charlotte Brontë (April 1850)
• (d) From Charlotte Brontë, Letter to Elizabeth Gaskell (20 September 1851)
• (e) From Florence Nightingale, Cassandra (1860)
• 5. Women in Contemporary Fiction
• (a) From Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1848)
• (b) From Geraldine Jewsbury, The Half Sisters (1848)
• (c) From Frances Trollope, The Young Countess or Love and Jealousy (1848)
• Appendix D: The Court of Chancery
• 1. From “Reform in the Court of Chancery,” The Times (1 April 1850)
• 2. From “Delays in Chancery,” The Times (8 August 1850)
• 3. From “Court of Chancery,” The Times (25 December 1850)
• 4. Leading Article, The Times (1 January 1851)
• 5. From Alfred Cole and W.H. Wills, “The Martyrs of Chancery,” Household Words
• (a) December 1850
• (b) February 1851
• 6. From Edward B. Sugden, “Prisoners for Contempt of the Court of Chancery,” The Times (7 January 1851)
• 7. From “A Chancery Bone of Contention,” Punch (June 1852)
• Appendix E: Attitudes to Religious and Other Proselytizing
• 1. From Charles Dickens, “Whole Hogs,” Household Words (August 1851)
• 2. From Clare Lucas Balfour, “Stopping Half Way,” The Temperance Offering (1852)
• 3. Charles Dickens, Letter to the Reverend H. Christopherson (9 July 1852)
• 4. From R.W. Vanderkiste, Notes and Narratives of a Six Years’ Mission Principally among the Dens of London (1852)
• 5. From the London Quarterly Review (January 1871)
• Appendix F: Contemporary Attitudes to Class Inequality
• 1. From Thomas Carlyle, Chartism (1839)
• 2. From Arthur Helps, The Claims of Labour (1844)
• 3. From Jessie Boucherett, “Endowed Schools” (1852)
• 4. From J.S. Mill, Principles of Political Economy (1859)
• Appendix G: Conditions of the Working Class
• 1. Living Conditions as Described in Dickens’s Household Words
• (a) From “A December Vision” (December 1850)
• (b) From “A Walk in a Workhouse” (May 1850)
• (c) From “A Nightly Scene in London” (January 1856)
• 2. Burial Grounds
• (a) From “Spa-Fields Burial Grounds,” The Times (5 March 1845)
• (b) From “Heathen and Christian Burial,” Household Words (April 1850)
• 3. Disease
• (a) From Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (1843)
• (b) From “How Cholera is Spread,” The Lancet (13 October 1849)
• (c) [Mortality Among the Working Classes], from The Times (4 September 1851)
• 4. Epidemics and Sanitation
• (a) From Edwin Chadwick, Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population (1842)
• (b) [Sanitary Conditions of the city], from The Times (2 January 1851)
• (c) From a Speech by Dickens to the Metropolitan Sanitary Association (10 May 1851)
• Select Bibliography