Its costive deliberations were likened to those of the British courts of chancery mercilessly caricatured by Dickens in Bleak House.

Another early example of a whodunit is a subplot in the novel Bleak House ( 1853 ) by Charles Dickens.

The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 – 61 ).

* Nemo, a minor character from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House ( 1852 )

His favorite books are ( in order ) The Golden Argosy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Satanic Verses, McTeague, Lord of the Flies, Bleak House, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Raj Quartet, Light in August, and Blood Meridian.

* Charles Dickens publishes Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens provides a very graphical depiction of the death of the shopkeeper Mr. Krook by spontaneous combustion in his novel Bleak House ( 1852 ).

In 1853 it published an anonymous and unfavourable review of Charles Dickens ’ Bleak House, later revealed to be by George Brimley, typical of the paper's enduring contempt for him as a ‘ popular ’ writer " amusing the idle hours of the greatest number of readers ; not, we may hope, without improvement to their hearts, but certainly without profoundly affecting their intellects or deeply stirring their emotions.

The Thellusson v Woodford will case was fictionalized by Charles Dickens as Jarndyce and Jarndyce in Bleak House, and led to Parliament legislating against such accumulation of money for later distribution.

* Sir Leicester Dedlock, Charles Dickens's Bleak House

Drake also starred as Smallweed in the BBC adaptation of Bleak House ( 1985 ), and Filipina Dreamgirls, a TV film for the BBC.

* Bleak House ( series, 2005 ) as Sir Leicester Dedlock

Despite these reforms, it was still possible for Charles Dickens, writing in 1852 in the preface to his novel Bleak House, to bemoan the inefficiencies of the Court of Chancery.

* Bleak House ( 1985 ; television series )

In more recent years Dickens has been most admired for his later novels, such as Dombey and Son ( 1846-8 ), Great Expectations ( 1860-1 ), Bleak House ( 1852-3 ) and Little Dorrit ( 1855-7 ) and Our Mutual Friend ( 1864-5 ).

* Charles Dickens writes Bleak House, the first English novel to feature a detective.

Leigh Hunt was the original of Harold Skimpole in Bleak House.

The Hall's most famous use as a court is in the start of Charles Dickens ' Bleak House, which opens with “ London.

A fictional Lord Chancellor also appears in Charles Dickens ' novel Bleak House ( also identified only by title ), presiding over the interminable chancery case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.

The first recorded use of the word boredom is in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens, written in 1852, in which it appears six times, although the expression to be a bore had been used in the sense of " to be tiresome or dull " since 1768.

Christie had previously experimented with this approach ( famously pioneered by Charles Dickens in Bleak House ), in her novel The Man in the Brown Suit.

He made a return to dramatic acting in 2005, appearing in the BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House.

The Isle of Gulls ( printed 1606 ), a prose comedy founded upon Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, contains in its light dialogue much satire to which the key is now lost, but Algernon Charles Swinburne notes in Manasses's burlesque of a Puritan sermon is a curious anticipation of the eloquence of Mr. Chadband in Bleak House.

The album, which saw the band record for the first time at their own studios Bleak House, had a different style to it and increasingly incorporated electronic sounds into tracks.

Other tunes that also became attached to hymns were Cranham which is the usual tune to Christina Rossetti's poem In the Bleak Midwinter and Sheen which is attached to a versification of the recessional From glory to glory advancing from the Orthodox Christian Liturgy of Saint James.

In the standard D & D cosmology, Baator ’ s first layer, Avernus, shares borders with the neighbouring planes of the Infernal Battlefield of Acheron and the Bleak Eternity of Gehenna ; travel is possible between Baator and these planes at certain locations.

It is stocked with perch, trout ( rainbow, brown, brook ), carp, European chub, common rudd, common roach, pumpkinseed, wels catfish, Danube Bleak and various members of Carassius.

Executive Producers Barbara Pyle and Nick Boxer have confirmed that Argos Bleak is a product of mixed races with his mother being Australian, father being South African and studying in boarding school in England, leading to development of his accent.

Charles Dickens ' novel Bleak House begins with a description of muddy streets, whose primordial character is emphasized by mention of Megalosaurus: " Implacable November weather.

In Charles Dickens ' novel Bleak House, the sinister solicitor to the aristocracy, Mr Tulkinghorn, has his offices in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and one of its most dramatic scenes is set there.

Jarndyce v Jarndyce is a fictional court case in Chancery in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

A Midwinter's Tale ( also known as In the Bleak Midwinter ) is a 1995 romantic comedy written and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

He is the founding member of the photography group Bleak Beauty.

" Don corrects her that actually this is a quote from Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

An example in Bleak House is dialogue spoken by Jo, the miserable boy who sweeps a path across a street:

His symbol is a crowned laughing lich skull on a solid black hexagon, his divine realm is Death's Embrace in the Bleak Eternity of Gehenna, on the layer of Mungoth, and his Third Edition D & D domains are Death, Evil, Magic, and Undeath.

He is known for his roles as John Jarndyce in the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House and as Gordon Urquhart in the film Local Hero, but is best known for playing the part of Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy, and of Tom Campbell-Gore in BBC TV's Holby City.

Adjoining the church is Bleak House, a Grade-II-listed 19th-century dwelling.

The Castle is the inspiration for Chesney Wold in one of his greatest works, Bleak House.

Since leaving EastEnders, Brooks has appeared in the ITV1 drama The Golden Hour, the BBC medical drama Casualty, the 2005 BBC adaptation of Bleak House, the independent film Take 3 Girls which is yet to be released, an episode of ITV's Heartbeat and as the voice of Mary Dixon for the BBC Radio

He was repeatedly involved in legal disputes with his neighbours whether in England or Italy and Dickens ’ characterisation of him in Bleak House revolves around such a dispute over a gate between Boythorn and Sir Leicester Dedlock.

She and the Slaughter Family once collaborated with Looten Plunder and Argos Bleak in the episode " Horns A ' Plenty " when the Planeteers ruined each one's rhinoceros poaching.

In regards to the cost effectiveness of blended learning, " Bleak budgets coupled with looming teacher shortages amidst an increasing demand for results are accelerating the growth of online learning into blended environments.

However, by the nineteenth century proceedings before the Court of Chancery often dragged on and on, with cases not being decided for years at a time ( a problem that was parodied by Charles Dickens in the fictional case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce in Bleak House ).

* Interview with Bleak House star Gillian Anderson.

For instance, the opening of Charles Dickens ' novel Bleak House begins with the following three sentences:

* The Bleak Street Bunch, a kind of Bash Street Kids serial although more serious and dealing with contemporary issues.

Redburn contains one of the more notable examples of spontaneous combustion in literature, along with Charles Dickens ' Bleak House.

He authored a song dedicated to the Soviet Pacific Fleet, " Next to the Bleak Kuriles " (" Над серой Курильской грядою ") ( lyrics by Nikolai Bukin ), a work which combined elements of heroic devotion to the Motherland with pensiveness and longing for the far-away family and its comforts.

He was pleased to learn that the serial was being produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark, whose Bleak House adaptation he had enjoyed, and that he would be appearing with his Jekyll co-star Denis Lawson.

The Gray Waste shares its borders with the neighbouring planes of the Tarterian Depths of Carceri and the Bleak Eternity of Gehenna ; travel is possible between the Gray Waste and these planes at certain locations.

(, literally " Legend with Sword of the Yellow Emperor: Billows of the Bleak ")