![]() ![]() ![]() Starting with the breach of promise case in PICKWICK PAPERS, Dickens looked closely at the law. Dickens had been a law reporter and then a parliamentary reporter before he wrote fiction. Jarndyce, which everyone (even Richard's cousin John Jarndyce - played by Desmond Elliot) warns is not worth the effort. We also are involved with the actions of Richard Carstone (Esther's boyfriend) in trying to win a long drawn out estate chancery case, Jarndyce v. Lady Honoria Deadlock (Dame Diana Rigg) is having an increasingly difficult time regarding her private life and the meddling involvement of the family solicitor Tulkinghorn (Peter Vaughn). Later we get involved with the gentry, Sir Leicester Dedlock, and his wife. She is illegitimate, but they won't tell her anything about her parentage. Esther is raised by her aunt and uncle, who (in typical Dickens style) mistreat her. ![]() The novel was the only attempt by Dickens to make a central narrator (one of two in the work) a woman, Esther Summerson. No film version of the novel was ever attempted (it is remarkably rich in subplots that actually serve as counterpoints to each other, so that it would have been very hard to prune it down). ![]() This production was made in the middle 1980s, and appears to be the first serious attempt to put BLEAK HOUSE on celluloid. ![]()
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