{ "schemaVersion": 1, "slug": "bleak-house-pg1023", "title": "Bleak House", "author": "Charles Dickens", "language": "en", "spoilers": true, "characters": [ { "name": "Mr. Vholes", "aliases": [ "Vholes" ], "description": "A reserved Chancery lawyer who represents Richard Carstone. He leaves Richard in court and departs with Mr. Kenge." }, { "name": "Mr. Woodcourt", "aliases": [ "Allan Woodcourt", "young surgeon", "dark young man", "young Mr. Woodcourt" ], "description": "A skilled surgeon and Esther’s husband, who tends Richard during his final illness and brings him home from court. He and Esther have been married seven years." }, { "name": "Esther Summerson", "aliases": [ "Esther", "Miss Summerson", "little Esther Summerson", "Dame Durden", "Mother Hubbard", "Mrs. Shipton", "Minerva", "Esther Hawdon", "Fitz Jarndyce", "Miss Fitz Jarndyce" ], "description": "The first-person narrator, Lady Dedlock’s daughter, and Allan Woodcourt’s wife. She visits Richard in his final illness and later recounts the lives of her family and friends." }, { "name": "Mr. Jarndyce", "aliases": [ "John Jarndyce", "cousin John", "guardian" ], "description": "Esther’s guardian and Ada’s cousin, who comforts Richard and offers him a home at Bleak House. After Richard’s death, he becomes Ada’s guardian and also the guardian of her son." }, { "name": "Ada Clare", "aliases": [ "Miss Ada", "Miss Clare", "Ada" ], "description": "Richard’s devoted wife and Esther’s close companion. She cares for Richard in his final illness and later raises their son, with John Jarndyce as guardian." }, { "name": "Richard Carstone", "aliases": [ "young Mr. Richard Carstone", "Richard", "Rick", "Mr. C.", "Mr. Richard" ], "description": "An orphan consumed by the Jarndyce and Jarndyce suit, which has left him worn and gravely ill. He dies after reconciling with Ada and John Jarndyce, and his posthumous son is named for him." }, { "name": "Miss Flite", "aliases": [ "little mad old woman", "the little cracked old woman", "madwoman" ], "description": "An eccentric woman long awaiting judgment in her Chancery case. After Richard’s death, she tells Esther she has released her symbolic birds." }, { "name": "Sir Leicester Dedlock", "aliases": [], "description": "A wealthy baronet and Lady Dedlock’s husband. Invalided, bent, and nearly blind, he visits her mausoleum and remains at Chesney Wold with his old household." }, { "name": "Lady Dedlock", "aliases": [ "My Lady Dedlock" ], "description": "Sir Leicester’s late wife and Esther’s mother. She lies in the mausoleum at Chesney Wold; the circumstances of her death and return there remain a mystery to the public." }, { "name": "Mr. Boythorn", "aliases": [ "Lawrence Boythorn", "Boythorn" ], "description": "John Jarndyce’s exuberant old friend and Sir Leicester’s neighbor. He keeps up their quarrel, partly to humor Sir Leicester, and knows how closely their fortunes were connected through two sisters." }, { "name": "Mr. George", "aliases": [ "George", "the trooper", "General George" ], "description": "A former trooper and George’s Shooting Gallery proprietor, now living in a lodge at Chesney Wold. He remains beside the invalid Sir Leicester, and his old friend Phil works around the stable yard." }, { "name": "Phil", "aliases": [ "custodian of George’s Gallery", "Phil Squod" ], "description": "A lame, badly scarred assistant devoted to his commander, Mr. George. He now lives near George at Chesney Wold and polishes the stable equipment." }, { "name": "Mrs. Rouncewell", "aliases": [], "description": "The elderly housekeeper at Chesney Wold and George Rouncewell’s mother. She remains close to Sir Leicester and goes to church on her son’s arm." }, { "name": "Watt Rouncewell", "aliases": [ "Watt", "Mr. Rouncewell", "gentleman at the Dedlock Arms", "young gentleman with fishing-tackle" ], "description": "Mrs. Rouncewell’s grandson and the ironmaster’s son. He is among the family who visit Chesney Wold in summer." }, { "name": "the young Rouncewell women", "aliases": [ "Esther’s nieces" ], "description": "George’s nieces, daughters of his ironmaster brother. They sometimes visit Chesney Wold and are seen playing in the park." }, { "name": "Volumnia Dedlock", "aliases": [ "Miss Volumnia", "Miss Dedlock" ], "description": "Sir Leicester’s poor relation, who stays with him at Chesney Wold and reads to him in the evenings. A memorandum about provision for her gives her some security if anything happens to him." }, { "name": "debilitated cousin at Chesney Wold", "aliases": [ "languid cousin with a moustache" ], "description": "An unnamed Dedlock cousin who finds the quiet life at Chesney Wold deeply depressing and complains about it." }, { "name": "Sir Leicester Dedlock’s cousins", "aliases": [ "the cousins" ], "description": "Unnamed Dedlock relations who visit Chesney Wold occasionally, especially during the shooting season." }, { "name": "Ada and Richard’s child", "aliases": [ "little creature", "their child", "Ada and Richard’s future son", "generous brave man", "their infant", "little Richard" ], "description": "Ada and Richard’s son, born shortly before Richard’s burial and named Richard after his father. Ada later teaches him, and he calls Esther one of his two mothers." }, { "name": "Charley", "aliases": [ "Bleak House maid sent for Charley" ], "description": "Neckett’s eldest daughter and Esther’s former maid and pupil. She marries a prosperous local miller and remains close to Esther’s household." }, { "name": "Emma", "aliases": [ "Neckett’s baby daughter" ], "description": "Neckett’s daughter and Charley’s sister, once cared for by Charley. Seven years later she resembles Charley as a child and is still Esther’s young maid." }, { "name": "Tom", "aliases": [ "Neckett’s young son" ], "description": "Neckett’s son and brother of Charley and Emma. John Jarndyce sent him to school; he is now apprenticed to the local miller." }, { "name": "Caddy Jellyby", "aliases": [ "Miss Jellyby", "Caroline Jellyby" ], "description": "Mrs. Jellyby’s eldest daughter, married to Prince Turveydrop. She works hard to support her family and patiently learns ways to communicate with her deaf and dumb daughter." }, { "name": "Prince Turveydrop", "aliases": [ "young Mr. Turveydrop", "Caddy’s lover" ], "description": "Caddy’s kind, hardworking husband, who is lame and can do little work. Caddy supports their household." }, { "name": "Mr. Jellyby", "aliases": [], "description": "Mrs. Jellyby’s mild, melancholy husband and Caddy’s father. He spends his evenings at Caddy’s home with his head against the wall, as he used to do in his old home." }, { "name": "Mrs. Jellyby", "aliases": [], "description": "A woman devoted to philanthropic causes, whose family has long been neglected. After her African project fails, she takes up the cause of women’s right to sit in Parliament." }, { "name": "Caddy and Prince’s baby", "aliases": [ "little Esther", "Caddy’s baby", "Caddy’s poor little baby", "Esther’s little namesake" ], "description": "Caddy and Prince’s daughter, once a tiny baby and now deaf and dumb. Caddy devotes herself to learning ways to ease her daughter’s affliction." }, { "name": "Peepy", "aliases": [ "Jellyby boy caught in the railings", "young Jellyby" ], "description": "A young child of the Jellybys who is now doing well in the Custom House. Old Mr. Turveydrop takes pride in patronizing him and has reportedly left him a French clock that was not his to give." }, { "name": "Mr. Turveydrop", "aliases": [ "old Mr. Turveydrop", "the father" ], "description": "Prince’s idle father, who still displays his deportment around town and enjoys the patronage of Peepy." }, { "name": "Ada and Richard’s two mamas", "aliases": [ "Esther and Ada" ], "description": "Esther and Ada, whom Ada and Richard’s young son regards as his two mothers; Esther is one of them." }, { "name": "Esther and Allan’s children", "aliases": [ "two little daughters", "my dearest little pets" ], "description": "Esther and Allan Woodcourt’s two young daughters, whom Esther describes as pretty." }, { "name": "Caddy’s deaf and dumb daughter", "aliases": [ "Caddy’s poor little girl" ], "description": "Caddy and Prince Turveydrop’s daughter, who is deaf and dumb. Caddy learns many ways to communicate with and comfort her." }, { "name": "Caddy’s miller husband", "aliases": [ "the miller" ], "description": "An unnamed, prosperous local miller who is Charley’s husband. He is very fond of her and employs Tom as an apprentice." }, { "name": "King of Borrioboola-Gha", "aliases": [ "king of Borrioboola" ], "description": "The unnamed ruler whose wish to sell the surviving people of Borrioboola-Gha for rum helped bring Mrs. Jellyby’s African project to failure." }, { "name": "Mr. Skimpole", "aliases": [ "Harold Skimpole" ], "description": "A charming, childlike former physician who depended on others to support him. He dies about five years after Esther last sees him; his published diary portrays him as a victim of others’ selfishness, though Esther reads only one sentence of it." }, { "name": "Mrs. Woodcourt", "aliases": [ "Allan Woodcourt’s mother", "Woodcourt’s widowed mother" ], "description": "Allan Woodcourt’s widowed mother, who stays with John Jarndyce and Esther in London during Esther’s illness. She approves of Esther’s engagement to Jarndyce and, after learning of Allan’s love for Esther, lives with the family and comes to appreciate Esther deeply." }, { "name": "Mr. Smallweed", "aliases": [ "Grandfather Smallweed" ], "description": "An elderly, helpless man who claims Krook’s property through his wife’s kinship. He finds a later will among Krook’s papers and, after negotiating with Mr. Bucket, reluctantly hands it to John Jarndyce in exchange for a promise of fair payment." }, { "name": "Mr. Bucket", "aliases": [ "Bucket", "Inspector Bucket" ], "description": "A sharp detective employed by Sir Leicester to investigate Lady Dedlock’s case. He negotiates with Mr. Smallweed to recover a will from Krook’s papers and delivers it to John Jarndyce." }, { "name": "Mr. Kenge", "aliases": [ "Conversation Kenge" ], "description": "A solicitor at Kenge and Carboy’s who represents John Jarndyce in the Chancery suit. He examines the newly found will and explains that it is later than the other wills, properly executed, and would materially improve Richard and Ada’s interests; he later reports that the estate has been absorbed by costs." }, { "name": "Mr. Guppy", "aliases": [ "young clerk from Kenge and Carboy’s", "inked young gentleman", "Guppy", "William Guppy" ], "description": "A former clerk at Kenge and Carboy’s who once proposed marriage to Esther, which she refused. Now admitted as an attorney, he visits Esther with his mother and friend Tony Jobling to renew his proposal, which John Jarndyce firmly rejects." }, { "name": "Mr. Rouncewell’s younger son", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Rouncewell’s second son" ], "description": "Mrs. Rouncewell’s surviving son, who rejected a prospective position at Chesney Wold to pursue mechanical work and became a successful ironmaster. He welcomes his long-estranged brother George home and proposes a place for him in the family business." }, { "name": "George Rouncewell’s brother", "aliases": [ "Mr. Rouncewell’s younger son", "Mrs. Rouncewell’s second son" ], "description": "George’s prosperous brother, who pursued mechanical work and raised a family. He welcomes George home warmly, offers him a role in the iron business, and explains that their mother will not disinherit her favourite son." }, { "name": "Rosa", "aliases": [], "description": "A shy young woman from the village, favored and trained by Lady Dedlock at Chesney Wold. She is engaged to Watt Rouncewell and is preparing to travel to Germany with one of his sisters for further education." }, { "name": "Mr. Guppy’s mother", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Guppy", "Mrs. Guppy of the Old Street Road" ], "description": "William Guppy’s elderly mother, who lives on a small annuity in Old Street Road. She accompanies him when he renews his proposal to Esther and becomes angrily offended when it is rejected." }, { "name": "Mr. Weevle", "aliases": [ "Tony Jobling", "Mr. Jobling", "Jobling" ], "description": "An impoverished former associate of Mr. Guppy who rented a room from Krook under the name Mr. Weevle. He accompanies Guppy to visit Esther and plans to work as his clerk." }, { "name": "the ironmaster’s wife", "aliases": [ "George’s sister-in-law" ], "description": "The unnamed wife of George’s prosperous brother and mother of his daughters. She is among the family who welcome George home." }, { "name": "Volumnia’s maid", "aliases": [ "Miss Dedlock’s maid" ], "description": "An unnamed maid assigned to attend Volumnia during the night at Chesney Wold. Sleepy and resentful at being kept from bed, she helps escort Volumnia back to her room." }, { "name": "carriage drivers on the return journey", "aliases": [ "two drivers" ], "description": "Two unnamed drivers who bring Esther and Mr. Bucket back toward London through the storm. Mr. Bucket pays them and directs them to take the carriage to a stable." }, { "name": "Guster", "aliases": [ "Augusta" ], "description": "A lean young woman employed in the Snagsby household, possibly christened Augusta, who suffers unexplained fits. She received and was preparing to send Esther’s mother’s letter, then tells Esther how the exhausted, lost woman gave it to her and asked directions to the poor burial ground." }, { "name": "Mr. Snagsby", "aliases": [], "description": "A mild, timid law-stationer and friend of Mr. Bucket. He helps during Guster’s fit and listens as she explains how Lady Dedlock entrusted her with Esther’s letter." }, { "name": "Mrs. Snagsby", "aliases": [ "Peffer’s niece", "Mr. Snagsby’s little woman" ], "description": "Mr. Snagsby’s jealous, suspicious wife, who has helped Mr. Bucket investigate the case. She had frightened Guster during a fit while trying to obtain the letter, but later comforts her and helps her speak to Esther." }, { "name": "Jenny", "aliases": [ "brickmaker’s wife" ], "description": "A badly bruised woman who once nursed her dying baby and comforted Liz. After helping Lady Dedlock evade pursuit by exchanging clothes with her, she is found cold and dead at the gate of the poor burial ground." }, { "name": "Gridley", "aliases": [ "Mr. Gridley", "the man from Shropshire", "ruined suitor from Shropshire" ], "description": "A ruined Shropshire suitor driven to furious outbursts by a Chancery suit that consumed his estate. Miss Flite had intended to name him executor, but says he wore out and Richard has succeeded him." }, { "name": "Mr. Skimpole’s Irish housekeeper", "aliases": [ "Irishwoman" ], "description": "An unnamed Irish woman at the Skimpole household who admits Esther. She is breaking up the lid of a water-butt to use as firewood." }, { "name": "Ada and Richard’s future daughter", "aliases": [ "his daughter" ], "description": "A hoped-for daughter imagined by Ada as a grown woman who might be happily married and proud of Richard. This is a future possibility, not a child already born." }, { "name": "Mr. Smallweed’s companions", "aliases": [ "the other man and two women" ], "description": "Unnamed people who accompany Mr. Smallweed, Mr. Chadband, and Mrs. Snagsby to Sir Leicester’s house; the passage does not identify them individually." }, { "name": "Mercury in powder at the Dedlock town house", "aliases": [ "Mercury in powder" ], "description": "A tall powdered servant at the Dedlocks’ town house. He reports that Sir Leicester is alone in the library and that he has had several business visitors." }, { "name": "Mr. Tulkinghorn", "aliases": [], "description": "An attorney who investigated Lady Dedlock’s past and whose murder is wrongly suspected of involving her. Lady Dedlock says she followed him to his darkened house on the night of his death to ask him to end her suspense, but received no answer." }, { "name": "Esther’s mother", "aliases": [ "Esther’s mama" ], "description": "Esther’s absent mother, Lady Dedlock, whom Esther has never known openly. The passage confirms that she is Esther’s mother and shows her fleeing after Sir Leicester learns her secret." }, { "name": "Lady Dedlock’s sister", "aliases": [ "Esther’s aunt", "Lady Dedlock’s elder sister" ], "description": "The unnamed elder sister of Lady Dedlock and Esther’s aunt, formerly Miss Barbary’s employer. Mr. Jarndyce had told Esther of Lawrence Boythorn’s engagement to her." }, { "name": "Sir Leicester Dedlock’s valet", "aliases": [ "valet" ], "description": "An unnamed servant who tends Sir Leicester and dresses him after his apoplectic attack." }, { "name": "Sir Leicester’s doctors", "aliases": [ "doctors" ], "description": "Unnamed doctors who attend Sir Leicester after he collapses and try to revive him. They expect him to improve, but later prescribe silence and rest." }, { "name": "Lady Dedlock’s attendant", "aliases": [ "the attendant" ], "description": "An unnamed attendant whom Lady Dedlock’s messenger was sent to fetch; the passage gives no further details." }, { "name": "Lady Dedlock’s favourite girl", "aliases": [ "favourite girl" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman whom Lady Dedlock had sent away shortly before Tulkinghorn’s murder, which she fears may make her appear to have sought privacy for the crime." }, { "name": "Lady Dedlock’s coachman", "aliases": [ "short-legged coachman" ], "description": "An unnamed coachman in a flaxen wig who drives one of the Dedlocks’ carriages." }, { "name": "Lady Dedlock’s Mercury", "aliases": [ "luscious Mercuries" ], "description": "An unnamed powdered footman who rides behind a fashionable carriage bearing a stick of state and wearing a cocked hat." }, { "name": "Mademoiselle Hortense", "aliases": [ "Hortense", "Lady Dedlock’s maid", "Frenchwoman", "Mademoiselle" ], "description": "Lady Dedlock’s former French maid, who became Mr. Bucket’s lodger and was secretly watched by his wife. She tried to implicate Lady Dedlock and sent letters calling her a murderess, but Mr. Bucket arrested her for Tulkinghorn’s murder." }, { "name": "Mr. Bucket’s wife", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Bucket" ], "description": "Mr. Bucket’s wife and a capable, resourceful investigator. She keeps Hortense under watch, tracks the letters accusing Lady Dedlock, and helps recover the pistol Hortense discarded." }, { "name": "Mademoiselle Hortense’s theater companion", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Bucket" ], "description": "Mrs. Bucket, who accompanies Hortense to the theater on the night of Tulkinghorn’s murder and later watches her movements. She reports Hortense’s trip to a country inn and helps Mr. Bucket locate the discarded pistol." }, { "name": "unnamed officers at the police station", "aliases": [ "two police officers" ], "description": "Two unnamed uniformed officers who help Mr. Bucket prepare and circulate a description of Lady Dedlock during the search." }, { "name": "unnamed police messenger", "aliases": [ "third man in uniform", "man in uniform sent to fetch the equipage" ], "description": "An unnamed uniformed officer who carries out Mr. Bucket’s instructions and later fetches the carriage and horses for the search." }, { "name": "men who look like police and sailors", "aliases": [ "mixture of police and sailors" ], "description": "Unnamed men at a waterside station who confer with Mr. Bucket during his search for Lady Dedlock." }, { "name": "muddy boatman", "aliases": [ "man yet dark and muddy" ], "description": "An unnamed man in long, waterlogged boots and a muddy hat, called from a boat to speak privately with Mr. Bucket and inspect something retrieved from the water." }, { "name": "carriage driver on the search", "aliases": [ "driver", "my lad" ], "description": "An unnamed driver who takes Esther and Mr. Bucket through London and the countryside as they search for Lady Dedlock." }, { "name": "postilion", "aliases": [ "man in uniform who had fetched the equipage" ], "description": "An unnamed postilion who accompanies the horses and carriage during the search." }, { "name": "turnpike-keepers", "aliases": [ "turnpike-keepers" ], "description": "Unnamed keepers at road toll gates whom Mr. Bucket questions while tracing Lady Dedlock’s journey." }, { "name": "ostler who catches the cup", "aliases": [ "ostler" ], "description": "An unnamed ostler who catches Esther’s cup and saucer after she drinks tea on the road." }, { "name": "Mr. Bucket’s coachman at the shooting gallery", "aliases": [ "coachman" ], "description": "An unnamed coachman who waits with Mr. Bucket’s horse outside George’s Shooting Gallery." }, { "name": "the other woman", "aliases": [ "unnamed woman whose clothes Hortense wore" ], "description": "An unnamed woman whose dress Mademoiselle Hortense wore when she met Jo to test his memory. Mr. Bucket regrets that he did not see her during his inquiries among the brickmakers." }, { "name": "brickmaker’s wife in the lodging-house", "aliases": [ "wife of one of the two brickmakers" ], "description": "An unnamed woman from St Albans who came to London with her brickmaker husband in search of work. Allan Woodcourt found her bruised and footsore in Tom-all-Alone’s; she later lives with Jenny and their husbands near the brick kilns." }, { "name": "brickmaker", "aliases": [ "father of the dead baby" ], "description": "An unnamed, impoverished and often drunken man from St Albans who works as a brickmaker. His wife says he got into trouble the previous night, and Allan sees that he has badly bruised her." }, { "name": "Liz", "aliases": [ "comforting neighbor", "scarred woman" ], "description": "A poor, abused woman who comforted Jenny after Jenny’s baby died. She lives with her husband, Jenny, and Jenny’s husband near the brick kilns, and recognizes Esther and Mr. Bucket." }, { "name": "unnamed brickmaker’s wife", "aliases": [ "woman waiting in Tom-all-Alone’s" ], "description": "An unnamed woman from St Albans, bruised and footsore, waiting outside a lodging-house in Tom-all-Alone’s. Allan Woodcourt treats her injury; she has lost her own baby and has cared for Liz’s infant." }, { "name": "brickmaker’s dead child", "aliases": [ "her own child" ], "description": "The unnamed child of the brickmaker’s wife, who has died. Allan understands from the woman’s account that she is not the mother of Liz’s infant." }, { "name": "Liz’s infant", "aliases": [ "comforting neighbor’s infant", "Liz’s baby", "very young child" ], "description": "The unnamed baby of Liz, whom the brickmaker’s wife calls her own. The child is mentioned but does not appear in the passage." }, { "name": "Jenny’s husband", "aliases": [ "brickmaker" ], "description": "An unnamed, surly brickmaker and Jenny’s husband, who tells Esther that Jenny left for London after meeting Lady Dedlock. He has a watch that Mr. Bucket suspects Lady Dedlock gave him, though it may have been taken." }, { "name": "Jenny’s husband’s companion", "aliases": [ "the other man" ], "description": "An unnamed man at the brickmakers’ house who corroborates Jenny’s husband’s account of Lady Dedlock’s visit." }, { "name": "Michael Jackson", "aliases": [ "person in the blue velveteen waistcoat" ], "description": "An unemployed man who tells Mr. Bucket that Lady Dedlock visited the brickmakers. He is described as wearing a blue velveteen waistcoat with a double row of mother-of-pearl buttons." }, { "name": "the landlady at the roadside inn", "aliases": [ "comely landlady" ], "description": "An unnamed, kind landlady who gives Esther a warm room, food, and a brief rest during the search. She has three daughters and warmly welcomes Esther." }, { "name": "the landlady’s eldest daughter", "aliases": [ "first daughter to be married" ], "description": "An unnamed daughter of the roadside inn’s landlady, one of three sisters. The family says she is to be the first married." }, { "name": "the landlady’s second daughter", "aliases": [ "one of the three fair girls" ], "description": "An unnamed daughter of the roadside inn’s landlady who helps care for Esther during her brief rest." }, { "name": "the landlady’s youngest daughter", "aliases": [ "blooming girl of nineteen" ], "description": "The nineteen-year-old youngest daughter of the roadside inn’s landlady. She kisses Esther goodbye, and Esther remembers her as a friend." }, { "name": "the brickmaker’s blind horse", "aliases": [ "gaunt blind horse" ], "description": "A gaunt, blind horse that turns a mill near the brick kilns, where bricks are made." }, { "name": "Mrs. Rouncewell’s younger son", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Rouncewell’s second son" ], "description": "Mrs. Rouncewell’s surviving son, who rejected a prospective position at Chesney Wold to pursue mechanical work. He became established, married, and raised his son Watt; he has now returned home." }, { "name": "Mr. Chadband", "aliases": [ "Reverend Mr. Chadband", "Chadband" ], "description": "A verbose preacher who accompanies Mr. Smallweed to Sir Leicester’s house, where he presents Mrs. Chadband’s knowledge of Lady Dedlock’s secret as leverage for money." }, { "name": "Mrs. Chadband", "aliases": [ "Rachael", "Mrs. Rachael" ], "description": "Mr. Chadband’s stern wife, formerly known as Mrs. Rachael from Miss Barbary’s household. She says she helped raise Esther, Lady Dedlock’s daughter, and that Miss Barbary concealed the child’s survival; she comes to Sir Leicester’s house seeking payment for this secret." }, { "name": "Mercury’s powdered colleague", "aliases": [ "brother deity" ], "description": "An unnamed powdered male servant at the Dedlocks’ town house who helps carry Mr. Smallweed upstairs in a chair." }, { "name": "Mr. Smallweed’s wife", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Smallweed", "Grandmother Smallweed" ], "description": "The elderly wife of Mr. Smallweed, who is deaf and related to Krook. Mr. Smallweed says Krook was her brother; she is not present during his visit to Sir Leicester." }, { "name": "Mrs. Bagnet", "aliases": [ "the old girl" ], "description": "Matthew Bagnet’s resourceful wife and George’s old friend. She discovers that Mrs. Rouncewell is George’s mother, accompanies her to London, and persuades George to accept legal help." }, { "name": "Quebec", "aliases": [ "little Malta’s elder sister" ], "description": "The elder Bagnet daughter. George sends her a kiss through her mother." }, { "name": "Malta", "aliases": [ "Quebec’s younger sister" ], "description": "The younger Bagnet daughter. George sends her a kiss through her mother." }, { "name": "Miss Barbary", "aliases": [ "Esther’s godmother", "Esther’s aunt" ], "description": "Esther’s stern guardian, later revealed as her aunt in fact though not in law. Mrs. Chadband says Miss Barbary concealed Esther’s survival after birth and raised her in secret." }, { "name": "the old man carried upstairs", "aliases": [ "Mr. Smallweed" ], "description": "Mr. Smallweed, an elderly man with little use of his limbs, is carried in a chair to Sir Leicester’s library by powdered servants." }, { "name": "unnamed visitor carried in a chair", "aliases": [ "incapable old man" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly man carried upstairs in a chair among the visitors to Sir Leicester; Mr. Bucket identifies him as Mr. Smallweed." }, { "name": "Mr. Bucket’s aunt", "aliases": [ "aunt at Chelsea" ], "description": "An unnamed ninety-year-old single woman with some property who lives in Chelsea. Mr. Bucket invents a visit to her as an excuse for having seen Lady Dedlock leave on the night of the murder." }, { "name": "Mr. Bagnet", "aliases": [ "Matthew Bagnet", "Mat", "Lignum" ], "description": "An ex-artilleryman and bassoon-player, Mr. George’s old soldier friend. He and his wife visit George in prison; he defers to his wife’s judgment and accepts her sudden trip to fetch George’s mother." }, { "name": "Mr. Bagnet’s deceased mother", "aliases": [ "his poor old mother" ], "description": "Mr. Bagnet’s late mother, whom he fondly remembers each year on Mrs. Bagnet’s birthday. She died twenty years earlier." }, { "name": "young Woolwich", "aliases": [ "Mr. Bagnet’s son", "the Bagnet godson" ], "description": "The Bagnets’ son and Mr. George’s godson, a young drummer who plays the fife. Mr. George once spoke to him about mothers’ heads turning white and wrinkled, revealing that George had recently seen his own mother." }, { "name": "Mr. George’s mother", "aliases": [ "George’s mother" ], "description": "An unnamed, living woman in Lincolnshire whom Mr. George has kept secret from others. Mrs. Bagnet learns of her from George and sets out to bring her to London." }, { "name": "Mr. Vholes’s daughters", "aliases": [ "Emma, Jane, and Caroline" ], "description": "Mr. Vholes’s three daughters, Emma, Jane, and Caroline. Their father says he works to provide for them and invokes their welfare when explaining the limits of his professional work." }, { "name": "Mr. Vholes’s aged father", "aliases": [ "aged father in the Vale of Taunton" ], "description": "Mr. Vholes’s elderly father, who lives in his native Vale of Taunton and depends on his son’s support." }, { "name": "Mr. Bucket’s lodger", "aliases": [ "lodger" ], "description": "An unnamed, amiable woman lodging with Mr. and Mrs. Bucket. She keeps Mrs. Bucket company while Mr. Bucket is occupied with the murder investigation." }, { "name": "Lord Doodle", "aliases": [], "description": "A political figure satirically named among the handful of human followers at Tulkinghorn’s funeral." }, { "name": "William Buffy", "aliases": [], "description": "A political figure who declined to secure a pension for Volumnia Dedlock or a lucrative post for Bob Stables. He attends Tulkinghorn’s funeral." }, { "name": "Duke of Foodle", "aliases": [], "description": "A political figure whose elaborate mourning carriage and funeral tribute are sent to Tulkinghorn’s funeral." }, { "name": "three cousins of Sir Leicester", "aliases": [ "the cousins" ], "description": "Unnamed Dedlock relations who gather at Chesney Wold for political occasions and seek public employment. One languid cousin attends Tulkinghorn’s funeral." }, { "name": "Mr. Bucket’s father", "aliases": [ "Bucket’s father" ], "description": "Mr. Bucket’s deceased father, who worked as a page, footman, butler, steward, and innkeeper. He considered service the most honorable part of his career." }, { "name": "Mr. Bucket’s brother", "aliases": [ "Bucket’s brother" ], "description": "An unnamed brother of Mr. Bucket who works in service." }, { "name": "Mr. Bucket’s brother-in-law", "aliases": [ "Bucket’s brother-in-law" ], "description": "An unnamed brother-in-law of Mr. Bucket who works in service." }, { "name": "Jo", "aliases": [ "Tom-all-Alone’s sweeping-boy", "boy who sweeps the crossing", "Toughy", "the Tough Subject" ], "description": "A homeless, illiterate boy from Tom-all-Alone’s, taken in by Mr. George. Gravely ill, he dies after asking to be buried beside the man who once told him, “I am as poor as you to-day,” and repeating the Lord’s Prayer with Allan Woodcourt." }, { "name": "the Dedlock housekeeper", "aliases": [ "old and attached retainer" ], "description": "Mrs. Rouncewell, the elderly housekeeper at Chesney Wold, where she has served for half a century." }, { "name": "Mr. George’s friend in the city", "aliases": [ "friend in the city" ], "description": "An unnamed moneylender associated with Grandfather Smallweed who holds Mr. George’s bond. Mr. George’s debt troubles are still weighing on him." }, { "name": "Mr. Bucket’s friend who wants a violoncello", "aliases": [ "friend in want of a second-hand wiolinceller" ], "description": "An unnamed friend of Mr. Bucket who wants a second-hand violoncello with a good tone. Mr. Bucket uses this as a reason to ask Mr. Bagnet about instruments." }, { "name": "Judy Smallweed", "aliases": [ "Judith Smallweed", "Judy", "the twin" ], "description": "Bart Smallweed’s twin sister and granddaughter of the elderly Smallweeds. She now appears to be living at Krook’s former shop and tells Allan that Miss Flite lodges with Mrs. Blinder." }, { "name": "Mrs. Blinder", "aliases": [ "chandler’s shopkeeper", "Mrs. Blinder of Bell Yard" ], "description": "A good-natured older woman who keeps the chandler’s shop in Bell Yard and rents rooms. Miss Flite lives with her, but the house is full when Allan seeks a place for Jo." }, { "name": "unnamed man who ordered Jo away", "aliases": [ "the person who ordered Jo to keep out of the way" ], "description": "An unnamed man who had Jo put in a hospital, gave him money, and ordered him to leave London and stay away. Jo fears that this man can see and hear everything; Mr. George identifies him as Mr. Bucket." }, { "name": "breakfast-stall keeper", "aliases": [ "keeper of the breakfast-stall" ], "description": "An unnamed person who serves Jo coffee and bread and butter while Allan Woodcourt tries to revive him." }, { "name": "sergeant at the guardhouse", "aliases": [ "sergeant" ], "description": "An unnamed sergeant at the Deal barracks who directs Esther to Richard’s quarters." }, { "name": "soldier who guides Esther", "aliases": [ "man sent before Esther" ], "description": "An unnamed soldier who leads Esther through the Deal barracks to Richard’s room." }, { "name": "naval officers returning from sea", "aliases": [ "some naval officers" ], "description": "Unnamed naval officers landing from a boat at Deal. Esther and Charley stop to watch them, and Esther recognizes Allan Woodcourt among the returning party." }, { "name": "Deal hotel waiter", "aliases": [ "waiter" ], "description": "An unnamed waiter at the Deal hotel who tells Esther and Charley how many ships are lying in the Downs." }, { "name": "Mrs. Skimpole", "aliases": [ "Harold Skimpole’s wife" ], "description": "Harold Skimpole’s delicate, high-nosed, chronically ill wife and mother of his children. She remains behind with their daughters when Skimpole leaves with John Jarndyce." }, { "name": "Arethusa Skimpole", "aliases": [ "Beauty daughter" ], "description": "Harold and Mrs. Skimpole’s eldest daughter, known in her father’s playful naming scheme as Beauty. She is married and has two children, who live with their parents." }, { "name": "Laura Skimpole", "aliases": [ "Sentiment daughter" ], "description": "Harold and Mrs. Skimpole’s daughter, called Sentiment by her father. She and her sisters complain when their father leaves home with John Jarndyce." }, { "name": "Kitty Skimpole", "aliases": [ "Comedy daughter" ], "description": "Harold and Mrs. Skimpole’s daughter, called Comedy by her father. She and her sisters complain when their father leaves home with John Jarndyce." }, { "name": "Arethusa’s husband", "aliases": [ "Beauty daughter’s husband" ], "description": "An unnamed young man who married Arethusa Skimpole three years earlier and lives with her and their children in the Skimpole household." }, { "name": "Arethusa’s two children", "aliases": [ "Beauty daughter’s children", "young fledglings" ], "description": "Arethusa Skimpole’s two unnamed children, who live with their parents in a nest upstairs in the Skimpole household." }, { "name": "Skimpole’s sons", "aliases": [ "his sons" ], "description": "Harold Skimpole’s unnamed sons, who have run away from home at various times." }, { "name": "the Skimpoles’ baker", "aliases": [ "rough kind of fellow", "human hedgehog" ], "description": "An unnamed baker in the Skimpoles’ neighborhood who lent them two armchairs and later demanded them back after they were worn out." }, { "name": "gardener who sells grapes to Skimpole", "aliases": [ "amiable gardener" ], "description": "An unnamed gardener who sells grapes to Harold Skimpole and waits to be paid." }, { "name": "Will", "aliases": [ "Will in the narrator’s imagined marriage" ], "description": "A man mentioned only in the narrator’s image of ordinary people dreaming of marriage to a Will or Sally." }, { "name": "Sally", "aliases": [ "Sally in the narrator’s imagined marriage" ], "description": "A woman mentioned only in the narrator’s image of ordinary people dreaming of marriage to a Will or Sally." }, { "name": "lamp-lighter", "aliases": [ "lamplighter" ], "description": "An unnamed man lighting the lamps in the court-yard outside Tulkinghorn’s chambers as Tulkinghorn arrives." }, { "name": "the Skimpoles’ Spanish refugee neighbors", "aliases": [ "poor Spanish refugees" ], "description": "Unnamed poor Spanish refugees who walk about the Polygon in Somers Town wearing cloaks and smoking small paper cigars." }, { "name": "melancholy apprentice at Turveydrop’s", "aliases": [ "little boy apprentice" ], "description": "An unnamed boy apprenticed to Prince Turveydrop’s dancing business. He dances with some enjoyment, though only in his legs, and the two outdoor apprentices pull his hair." }, { "name": "three other apprentices at Turveydrop’s", "aliases": [ "two other boys and a girl apprentice" ], "description": "Three unnamed young apprentices at Prince Turveydrop’s dancing business: two boys and a small girl. The boys eat their meal in the academy after practice." }, { "name": "girl apprentice at Turveydrop’s", "aliases": [ "dirty little limp girl", "little gauzy child" ], "description": "An unnamed young apprentice who studies dancing with Prince Turveydrop. She dances in a gauzy dress, says she dislikes dancing with boys, and leaves contemptuously after practice." }, { "name": "Krook’s cat", "aliases": [ "such a cat" ], "description": "Krook’s cat, which stays near him in the shop and snarls at his remains after his death." }, { "name": "Lady Jane", "aliases": [ "Krook’s cat" ], "description": "Krook’s large grey cat, who survives the fire and prowls the rooftops before returning through the chimney. In the old room she snarls at Mr. Weevle and spits at Mr. Tulkinghorn." }, { "name": "Young Smallweed", "aliases": [ "Smallweed", "Small", "Chick", "Chick Weed", "Small and Chick Weed", "Bart", "Bartholomew Smallweed", "the Elfin Smallweed" ], "description": "A lawyer’s clerk and protégé of Mr. Guppy, born a twin with Judy Smallweed. He has left Kenge and Carboy’s to take on his grandfather’s business and helps search Krook’s shop for property." }, { "name": "two newspaper reporters", "aliases": [ "public chroniclers of such inquiries", "two gentlemen not very neat about the cuffs and buttons" ], "description": "Two unnamed reporters who visit houses around Krook’s after his death and write accounts for the newspapers. They are seen near the court, each now prowling separately after their partnership has dissolved." }, { "name": "Mrs. Piper", "aliases": [ "Anastasia Piper" ], "description": "A married woman from the court whose husband is a cabinet-maker. She and Mrs. Perkins spread neighborhood gossip about Krook’s estate and the Smallweeds’ search." }, { "name": "Mrs. Perkins", "aliases": [], "description": "A woman living in the court who renewed her friendly relations with Mrs. Piper after Nemo’s death. She and Mrs. Piper share gossip about the Smallweeds and Krook’s property." }, { "name": "Little Swills", "aliases": [ "comic vocalist", "Mr. Swills" ], "description": "A comic vocalist who performs at the Sol’s Arms. He adapts his patter to the public’s fascination with the Smallweeds’ search of Krook’s shop." }, { "name": "Miss M. Melvilleson", "aliases": [ "the young lady of professional celebrity", "noted siren" ], "description": "A singer at the Sol’s Arms Harmonic Meetings who is publicly announced as unmarried, though Mrs. Perkins says she has been married for a year and a half and has a baby. Her songs now include jokes about the Smallweeds’ search for money." }, { "name": "Lord Coodle", "aliases": [], "description": "A political figure satirically depicted as a party leader whose dispute with Sir Thomas Doodle leaves the country without a government for several weeks." }, { "name": "Sir Thomas Doodle", "aliases": [], "description": "A political figure satirically depicted as a party leader who eventually joins the government with his relatives and followers." }, { "name": "young Coodle", "aliases": [], "description": "The young son or heir of Lord Coodle, imagined as having to wait until adulthood to govern if his father and Sir Thomas Doodle had killed each other." }, { "name": "young Doodle", "aliases": [], "description": "The young son or heir of Sir Thomas Doodle, imagined as having to wait until adulthood to govern if his father and Lord Coodle had killed each other." }, { "name": "Thomas", "aliases": [ "groom at Chesney Wold" ], "description": "An unnamed groom who tells Mrs. Rouncewell that Lady Dedlock has been poorly and kept largely to her room during a recent stay at Chesney Wold." }, { "name": "Honourable Bob Stables", "aliases": [ "Bob Stables" ], "description": "A fashionable Dedlock cousin, a skilled shot and maker of warm mashes, who longs for a well-paid, low-responsibility public post. He is useful to Sir Leicester as a dinner guest and supporter at the Hunt." }, { "name": "the townsman’s daughter", "aliases": [ "the girl in Mr. Tulkinghorn’s story" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman in Mr. Tulkinghorn’s account, whose father takes her away when he learns that a great lady has been patronizing her. The story closely parallels Lady Dedlock’s relationship with Rosa, but the names are withheld." }, { "name": "the great lady in Mr. Tulkinghorn’s story", "aliases": [ "the wealthy lady in the story" ], "description": "An unnamed wealthy, beautiful woman in Mr. Tulkinghorn’s story who kept a townsman’s daughter near her. She had secretly borne a child by a young army captain before her marriage; the parallel strongly points to Lady Dedlock." }, { "name": "young army captain in Mr. Tulkinghorn’s story", "aliases": [ "the captain in the army" ], "description": "An unnamed young army captain who fathered a child with the great lady in Mr. Tulkinghorn’s story. He died before the secret was discovered; the account parallels Captain Hawdon’s relationship with Lady Dedlock." }, { "name": "Mr. Boythorn’s housekeeper", "aliases": [ "good housekeeper" ], "description": "An unnamed, cheerful housekeeper at Boythorn’s home who persistently brings Esther food and drink while she recovers." }, { "name": "Stubbs", "aliases": [ "pony" ], "description": "Esther’s chubby, short-necked pony, who canters when coaxed but is stubborn about pulling a chaise. He becomes fond of Esther and follows her when she walks beside him." }, { "name": "old woman with sailor grandson", "aliases": [ "old old woman" ], "description": "An unnamed village woman whose sailor grandson is away at sea. Esther writes him a letter for her and draws the chimney-corner where he was raised." }, { "name": "old woman’s sailor grandson", "aliases": [ "sailor grandson" ], "description": "An unnamed sailor and grandson of the old village woman. From Plymouth, he replies that he plans to take Esther’s drawing to America and write again." }, { "name": "child who asks about Esther’s face", "aliases": [ "child" ], "description": "An unnamed village child who asks why Esther is no longer pretty as before, then gently touches her altered face with sympathy." }, { "name": "bridegroom who marks the register", "aliases": [ "bridegroom" ], "description": "An unnamed labouring man who cannot yet write and signs the marriage register with a mark. His bride plans to teach him and quietly protects him from shame." }, { "name": "bride who marks the register", "aliases": [ "bride" ], "description": "An unnamed young village woman, formerly one of the prettiest and most accomplished pupils at the school. She loves her husband and, knowing he cannot write, signs the marriage register with a mark so he will not be embarrassed." }, { "name": "Mr. Grubble", "aliases": [ "W. Grubble", "landlord of the Dedlock Arms" ], "description": "The pleasant, stoutish, middle-aged landlord of the Dedlock Arms, who sends Esther a discreet message asking her to come to the tavern. He receives her in his parlour before Richard appears." }, { "name": "Mrs. Grubble", "aliases": [ "Mr. Grubble’s wife" ], "description": "The unnamed wife of the Dedlock Arms landlord. Charley says she is beautiful but has a badly healed broken ankle." }, { "name": "Mrs. Grubble’s brother", "aliases": [ "sawyer put in the cage" ], "description": "An unnamed sawyer and brother of Mrs. Grubble, who was put in the village cage. Charley says he is expected to drink himself to death." }, { "name": "Ada and Richard’s unnamed cousin John", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed cousin called John, whom Esther finds talking with Ada after Skimpole’s debt has been paid. The passage gives no further information about him." }, { "name": "W. Grubble’s sign painter", "aliases": [ "painter of the Dedlock Arms sign" ], "description": "An unnamed person identified only through the inn sign, “The Dedlock Arms, by W. Grubble.”" }, { "name": "Mr. Vholes’s clerk", "aliases": [ "one of Vholes’s clerks" ], "description": "An unnamed clerk in Mr. Vholes’s office who tells him that Richard’s case has unexpectedly appeared in the Chancellor’s paper." }, { "name": "Mr. Vholes’s grandmother", "aliases": [ "dear grandmother" ], "description": "Mr. Vholes’s late grandmother, who died at the age of 102." }, { "name": "Richard and Ada’s deceased parents", "aliases": [ "the parents who made them orphans" ], "description": "The unnamed parents of Richard and Ada, whose deaths left both children orphaned when they were very young." }, { "name": "mother of the melancholy apprentice", "aliases": [ "ginger-beer shopkeeper" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who keeps a ginger-beer shop and is the mother of the melancholy boy apprenticed to Prince Turveydrop." }, { "name": "Mr. Krook", "aliases": [ "Krook", "the Chancellor", "Krook, the Chancellor" ], "description": "A short, withered old man who owned a rag-and-bottle shop and died in a fire at his lodging-house. His death draws public attention and an inquest; his remains and effects become the subject of a claim by the Smallweeds." }, { "name": "Countess Cornelia de Baudi Cesenate", "aliases": [], "description": "A woman whose death was cited as a reported case of spontaneous combustion." }, { "name": "Giuseppe Bianchini", "aliases": [], "description": "A prebendary of Verona who wrote a scholarly account of the Countess Cornelia de Baudi Cesenate’s death." }, { "name": "Le Cat", "aliases": [], "description": "A renowned French surgeon who wrote about a reported case of spontaneous combustion that occurred in a house where he lived." }, { "name": "Messrs. Fodere and Mere", "aliases": [], "description": "Two French investigators of spontaneous combustion, mentioned as authorities on the subject." }, { "name": "coroner", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed coroner who presides over the inquest into Nemo’s death and later holds an inquiry into Krook’s unusual death." }, { "name": "Joe Pouch’s widow", "aliases": [ "the widow of Joe Pouch" ], "description": "An unnamed widow in North America whom Mr. George once considered marrying. Mrs. Bagnet jokes that marrying her might have spared him his present troubles." }, { "name": "unnamed veiled woman", "aliases": [ "the lady in the veil", "the other one" ], "description": "An unnamed woman whose clothes Mademoiselle Hortense once wore to test Jo’s memory. She later visits Jenny’s cottage, asks after Esther’s health, and takes Esther’s handkerchief while leaving money; her identity is not established." }, { "name": "Miss Flite’s father", "aliases": [ "her father" ], "description": "Miss Flite’s late father, who had a builder’s business with her brother and was ruined by Chancery before dying in a debtors’ prison." }, { "name": "Miss Flite’s brother", "aliases": [ "her brother" ], "description": "Miss Flite’s late brother, who was drawn into drunkenness, rags, and death after Chancery ruined the family." }, { "name": "Miss Flite’s sister", "aliases": [ "her sister" ], "description": "Miss Flite’s late sister, who was also drawn into the family’s Chancery misfortunes; Miss Flite does not specify what happened to her." }, { "name": "Sir Leicester Dedlock’s father", "aliases": [ "the late Sir Leicester" ], "description": "The deceased father of Sir Leicester Dedlock, whose portrait hangs beside Lady Dedlock’s portrait at Chesney Wold." }, { "name": "comforting neighbor’s husband", "aliases": [ "her master" ], "description": "An unnamed abusive man whom Liz fears will hurt her if he finds Jo at their home. He is mentioned but does not appear directly." }, { "name": "Bleak House servants who cared for Jo", "aliases": [ "active sympathizers among the servants", "men about the house" ], "description": "Unnamed servants who help prepare a room for Jo and carry him there, wrapped against the rain. They show him kindness and keep watch overnight." }, { "name": "Bleak House messenger for Jo", "aliases": [ "messenger charged to deliver the letter" ], "description": "An unnamed messenger who is assigned to deliver John Jarndyce’s letter on Jo’s behalf at daybreak." }, { "name": "doctor attending Esther and Charley", "aliases": [ "Charley’s doctor" ], "description": "An unnamed doctor who treats Charley and later sees Esther when she falls ill. Esther asks him not to disclose her illness to the household." }, { "name": "Mrs. Perkins’s son", "aliases": [ "young Perkins" ], "description": "An unnamed young man whose having struck young Piper once caused a quarrel between Mrs. Perkins and Mrs. Piper. He fetches his mother’s supper and sends the children to bed." }, { "name": "Mrs. Piper’s son", "aliases": [ "Alexander James Piper", "young Piper" ], "description": "Mrs. Piper’s eighteen-month-old son, whose painful teething once prompted a neighborhood half-baptizing because he was not expected to live. He joins a group of children playing hide-and-seek and fetches the fire-engines when Krook dies." }, { "name": "landlord of the Sol’s Arms", "aliases": [ "James George Bogsby", "Mr. Bogsby" ], "description": "An unnamed publican who hosts the inquest and promotes Little Swills as an entertainer. He keeps the tavern open and welcomes Weevle and Guppy during the excitement after Krook’s death." }, { "name": "Miss M. Melvilleson’s baby", "aliases": [ "the singer’s baby" ], "description": "The unnamed baby of Miss M. Melvilleson, secretly brought to the Sol’s Arms during her performances to be fed." }, { "name": "pot-boy of the Sol’s Arms", "aliases": [ "pot-boy" ], "description": "An unnamed tavern worker who predicts a rush of customers when he hears of Krook’s death." }, { "name": "policemen guarding Krook’s house", "aliases": [ "two policemen" ], "description": "Two unnamed policemen left to guard Krook’s house after his death and control the crowd." }, { "name": "fireman at Krook’s house", "aliases": [ "the helmet" ], "description": "An unnamed fireman who remains outside Krook’s house with a policeman after the fire engines are summoned." }, { "name": "Krook’s sister", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Smallweed’s brother’s sister" ], "description": "The unnamed sister of Krook, identified as Mrs. Smallweed; her family claims Krook’s estate after his death." }, { "name": "Mr. Tulkinghorn’s clerk", "aliases": [ "clerk in the chambers" ], "description": "An unnamed clerk in Mr. Tulkinghorn’s chambers who tells the police that Tulkinghorn will vouch for the Smallweeds’ next-of-kin claim and arrange to take possession of Krook’s papers and effects." }, { "name": "Mr. Smallweed’s solicitor", "aliases": [ "solicitor acting for the Smallweeds" ], "description": "Mr. Tulkinghorn, whom Grandfather Smallweed says represents the family in its claim to Krook’s property." }, { "name": "undertaker", "aliases": [ "the undertaker" ], "description": "An unnamed undertaker who receives orders to make a full-sized coffin for Krook despite there being little left to bury." }, { "name": "Captain Hawdon", "aliases": [ "Mr. Hawdon", "the captain" ], "description": "A former captain and law-writer who died at Krook’s lodging-house. Mr. Guppy tells Lady Dedlock that Hawdon left old letters, while the passage reveals that Esther was given the birth name Esther Hawdon." }, { "name": "unnamed former servant of Miss Barbary", "aliases": [ "Guppy’s witness" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who served Miss Barbary while she brought Esther up. She told Mr. Guppy that Miss Barbary once confided Esther’s birth name was Esther Hawdon." }, { "name": "Nemo", "aliases": [ "law-writer", "Hawdon" ], "description": "A poor, reclusive law-writer whose name was Captain Hawdon. He copied legal documents for Snagsby and lodged above Krook’s shop, where he died of an opium overdose." }, { "name": "Jellyby children", "aliases": [ "the little Jellybys" ], "description": "The unnamed younger children of Mr. and Mrs. Jellyby, including Peepy and his little brothers and sisters. They are left largely uncared for and celebrate Caddy’s wedding in their attic." }, { "name": "Morgan ap-Kerrig", "aliases": [ "Morgan ap-Kerrig of Gimlet" ], "description": "Mrs. Woodcourt’s eminent Welsh ancestor, whom she describes as illustrious and descended from a royal family. She takes pride in his lineage, which she says her son Allan inherits." }, { "name": "Crumlinwallinwer", "aliases": [ "the bard" ], "description": "A bard who, according to Mrs. Woodcourt, sang the praises of her ancestor Morgan ap-Kerrig in a poem." }, { "name": "Mewlinnwillinwodd", "aliases": [], "description": "A Welsh poet or bard whose verses Mrs. Woodcourt recites in praise of Morgan ap-Kerrig’s lineage; the passage gives no further information." }, { "name": "Mrs. Woodcourt’s late husband", "aliases": [ "the MacCoorts of MacCoort descendant" ], "description": "Allan Woodcourt’s deceased father, descended from the Highland MacCoorts of MacCoort. He served as an officer in the Royal Highlanders and died on the battlefield." }, { "name": "Caddy’s wedding guests", "aliases": [ "guests at Caddy’s wedding breakfast" ], "description": "A small gathering of people devoted to public causes, including Mr. and Mrs. Pardiggle, Mr. Quale, Miss Wisk, an unnamed neglectful philanthropist, and an unnamed contentious man." }, { "name": "Miss Wisk", "aliases": [], "description": "An unmarried woman at Caddy’s wedding who is engaged to Mr. Quale. She advocates women’s emancipation from men and objects to the idea that women’s mission is chiefly domestic." }, { "name": "neglectful philanthropist at Caddy’s wedding", "aliases": [ "extremely dirty lady" ], "description": "An unnamed woman at Caddy’s wedding whose own home is neglected, though she keeps her church like a fair. Caddy describes her household as filthy." }, { "name": "contentious gentleman at Caddy’s wedding", "aliases": [ "everybody’s brother" ], "description": "An unnamed man at Caddy’s wedding who claims his mission is to be everybody’s brother but appears estranged from his large family." }, { "name": "unnamed boy employed by Mrs. Jellyby", "aliases": [ "unwholesome boy", "the boy" ], "description": "An unnamed, unhealthy-looking boy employed by Mrs. Jellyby to do the writing and work Caddy once performed. He takes his meals outside the house." }, { "name": "the ’prentices", "aliases": [ "Mr. Snagsby’s two apprentices", "Snagsby’s two apprentices" ], "description": "Two unnamed apprentices who work in Mr. Snagsby’s law-stationery shop. They attend Mr. Chadband’s gathering, giggle and nudge each other during his sermon, and are among those he addresses." }, { "name": "Lord Boodle", "aliases": [], "description": "A political figure named among the many relations claimed by Sir Leicester Dedlock." }, { "name": "Noodle", "aliases": [], "description": "A figure named at the end of a satirical list of relations claimed by Sir Leicester Dedlock." }, { "name": "Mr. Badger", "aliases": [ "Mr. Bayham Badger", "Bayham Badger" ], "description": "A Chelsea medical practitioner who took Richard into his home and supervised his medical studies. Richard leaves his medical training, having decided it does not suit him." }, { "name": "stubborn little girl pupil", "aliases": [ "not very hopeful pupil" ], "description": "An unnamed young girl taking a dancing lesson from Prince Turveydrop. She has a sulky expression and a deep voice, and her lesson ends when Caddy and Esther arrive." }, { "name": "the pupil’s mother", "aliases": [ "inanimate, dissatisfied mama" ], "description": "An unnamed woman accompanying Prince Turveydrop’s young pupil. Esther describes her as inanimate and dissatisfied." }, { "name": "Mr. Quale", "aliases": [], "description": "A loquacious young philanthropist who admires reformers and their causes. Mrs. Jellyby says he had shown interest in Caddy, who tells her mother she detests him." }, { "name": "Lord Chancellor", "aliases": [ "Lord High Chancellor", "his lordship" ], "description": "The presiding judge in the Court of Chancery, who hears Jarndyce and Jarndyce. He grants Richard’s application for an ensign’s commission after repeatedly adjourning and referring the matter." }, { "name": "unnamed physician", "aliases": [ "physician called to George’s Shooting Gallery" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly physician with grey hair and spectacles, summoned to visit a sick man at George’s Shooting Gallery. Mr. Bucket uses his arrival as a disguise." }, { "name": "unnamed man in green-baize cap", "aliases": [ "little man in a green-baize cap and apron" ], "description": "An unnamed, singular-looking man whose face, hands, and clothes are blackened. He opens the door to George’s Shooting Gallery." }, { "name": "Mr. George’s pupils", "aliases": [ "pupils at George’s Shooting Gallery" ], "description": "Unnamed people, both locals and foreigners, who practise shooting and fencing at George’s gallery. Mr. George says they range from gentlemen to apprentices and include people he considers mad." }, { "name": "Gridley’s peace-warrant sureties", "aliases": [ "the lawyers against whom Gridley threatened violence" ], "description": "Unnamed people involved in swearing the peace against Gridley after his anger toward the lawyers in his Chancery case." }, { "name": "boy who fetched the physician", "aliases": [ "Mr. George’s young man" ], "description": "An unnamed young man who requested that a physician visit a sick person at George’s Shooting Gallery." }, { "name": "two gentlemen handling Mr. Jellyby’s affairs", "aliases": [ "the two gentlemen" ], "description": "Unnamed men in the bankrupt Mr. Jellyby’s dining-room, surrounded by account books, papers, and blue bags as they try to understand his affairs." }, { "name": "Mrs. Jellyby’s employed boy", "aliases": [ "the boy" ], "description": "An unnamed boy whom Mrs. Jellyby employs to do work that Caddy used to perform. He is at dinner when Esther and Caddy visit." }, { "name": "twenty-three Chancery barristers", "aliases": [ "gentlemen in wigs" ], "description": "Unnamed barristers who appear in Jarndyce and Jarndyce at court. They contradict one another and leave the case without a result." }, { "name": "Chancery solicitors", "aliases": [ "solicitors in court" ], "description": "Unnamed solicitors who sit below the judge with bundles of papers during the court proceedings." }, { "name": "Chancery clerks bringing papers", "aliases": [ "clerks" ], "description": "Unnamed clerks who bring in heaps of papers for Jarndyce and Jarndyce and begin bundling them away before the hearing ends." }, { "name": "Smallweed’s son", "aliases": [ "Mr. Smallweed’s son", "Bart and Judy’s father" ], "description": "The deceased son of Grandfather and Grandmother Smallweed, and father of the twins Bart and Judy. He was a careful accountant and business partner to his father, and died of a low fever fifteen years before this passage." }, { "name": "Smallweed’s daughter-in-law", "aliases": [ "Bart and Judy’s mother" ], "description": "The deceased wife of Grandfather Smallweed’s son and mother of Bart and Judy. Described as prudent and austere, she died after the twins were born." }, { "name": "Smallweed’s great-grandfather", "aliases": [ "father of Mr. Smallweed’s grandfather" ], "description": "A deceased ancestor of the Smallweed family who built wealth through moneylending and compound interest. After suffering a business loss, he ended his life." }, { "name": "Smallweed’s great-great-grandfather", "aliases": [ "father of the father of Mr. Smallweed’s grandfather" ], "description": "A deceased ancestor described as a money-getting lender who taught his son to enter business early. He ended his life after a failed enterprise." }, { "name": "watchman who found Phil", "aliases": [ "watchman" ], "description": "An unnamed watchman who found Phil lying in a gutter and tumbled over him." }, { "name": "Mr. George’s shooting-gallery patrons", "aliases": [ "customers at George’s Shooting Gallery" ], "description": "Unnamed customers who use the shooting gallery. Phil reports that they have fired rifles and pistols poorly that evening." }, { "name": "proprietress of Jo’s lodging-house", "aliases": [ "proprietress of the house" ], "description": "An unnamed, drunken woman who runs the place where Jo sleeps in Tom-all-Alone’s. She helps Mr. Bucket and Mr. Snagsby establish that the boy known as Toughy is Jo." }, { "name": "Jenny’s dead child", "aliases": [ "Jenny’s baby", "Jenny’s dead baby" ], "description": "Jenny’s deceased child, whose death remains a source of grief and makes her especially tender toward Liz’s infant." }, { "name": "Darby", "aliases": [ "constable on duty at Tom-all-Alone’s" ], "description": "An unnamed constable on duty at the entrance to Tom-all-Alone’s, who lends Mr. Bucket a bull’s-eye lamp and accompanies him and Snagsby through the district." }, { "name": "brickmaker sleeping in the lodging-house", "aliases": [ "one of the two brickmakers" ], "description": "An unnamed brickmaker from St Albans who has come to London with his wife in search of work. Mr. Bucket finds him asleep in the lodging-house." }, { "name": "the fever patient in the palanquin", "aliases": [ "unseen wretch" ], "description": "An unnamed sick person carried through Tom-all-Alone’s in a shabby palanquin, surrounded by a crowd." }, { "name": "keeper’s wife", "aliases": [ "keeper’s wife" ], "description": "An unnamed woman, likely the keeper’s wife, who watches Hortense walk through the wet grass and comments on her passion. Esther and Ada often stop at the lodge to speak with her." }, { "name": "Lady Dedlock’s man", "aliases": [ "affectionate man" ], "description": "An unnamed male servant who travels with Sir Leicester and Lady Dedlock." }, { "name": "Boythorn’s canary", "aliases": [ "little canary", "his bird" ], "description": "A tame canary beloved by Lawrence Boythorn, who says he has provided an annuity for its care if it outlives him. It hops about Boythorn’s head." }, { "name": "Sir Leicester Dedlock’s coachman", "aliases": [ "coachman at Chesney Wold" ], "description": "An unnamed coachman who is described as a stately, handsome old servant and attends church with the household." }, { "name": "keeper", "aliases": [ "keeper at the lodge" ], "description": "An unnamed keeper who tends the lodge in the park and shelters Esther, Ada, and John Jarndyce during a storm. He also explains that Hortense is proud, passionate, and resentful of her treatment by Lady Dedlock." }, { "name": "young judge in town", "aliases": [ "the only judge in town" ], "description": "An unnamed judge who sits in chambers twice a week during the long vacation." }, { "name": "police constable", "aliases": [ "constable" ], "description": "An unnamed constable who takes Jo into custody for failing to move on, despite Mr. Snagsby’s attempt to explain that he knows the boy. He makes Jo leave the neighborhood." }, { "name": "Mr. Guppy’s friend", "aliases": [ "the other young gentleman", "Mr. Guppy’s unnamed friend" ], "description": "An unnamed young lawyer who accompanied Mr. Guppy to Chesney Wold. He is not otherwise identified." }, { "name": "waitress at the slap-bang dining-house", "aliases": [ "Polly" ], "description": "An unnamed waitress, called Polly by Smallweed, who serves Guppy, Smallweed, and Jobling at their neighborhood dining-house." }, { "name": "young clerk’s father", "aliases": [ "the articled clerk’s father" ], "description": "An unnamed man living in the country, visited by his son, an articled clerk at Kenge and Carboy’s, during the long vacation." }, { "name": "unnamed lady at the cigar-shop", "aliases": [ "lady at a cigar-shop" ], "description": "A woman near Chancery Lane whom Young Smallweed is said to love." }, { "name": "Young Smallweed’s former fiancée", "aliases": [ "the other lady" ], "description": "An unnamed woman to whom Young Smallweed was once engaged; he is said to have broken off the engagement." }, { "name": "Kenge and Carboy’s articled clerk", "aliases": [ "the articled clerk" ], "description": "An unnamed clerk at Kenge and Carboy’s who has taken a shooting license and gone to visit his father during the long vacation." }, { "name": "two fellow-stipendiaries at Kenge and Carboy’s", "aliases": [ "Mr. Guppy’s two fellow-stipendiaries" ], "description": "Two unnamed clerks at Kenge and Carboy’s who are away on leave during the long vacation." }, { "name": "unowned dogs in the Inns of Court", "aliases": [], "description": "Unowned dogs that stray into the Inns of Court and pant about the staircases in the heat." }, { "name": "blind men’s dogs", "aliases": [], "description": "Unnamed dogs that guide blind men through the hot London streets." }, { "name": "enslaved people on American plantations", "aliases": [ "slaves on American plantations" ], "description": "People enslaved on American plantations, whom Skimpole callously describes as adding poetry to the landscape for him." }, { "name": "keeper’s dog", "aliases": [], "description": "A dog belonging to the keeper, once seen diving into the fern beside the lodge." }, { "name": "Mr. Jobling’s creditors", "aliases": [ "creditors" ], "description": "Unnamed creditors who made complaints at Kenge and Carboy’s office about Jobling’s unpaid debts and helped end his professional connection there." }, { "name": "Gridley’s father", "aliases": [ "the farmer" ], "description": "The deceased father of Gridley and his brother, who left his farm and stock to his wife for life and then to Gridley, with a £300 legacy for the other son." }, { "name": "Gridley’s mother", "aliases": [], "description": "The late mother of Gridley and his brother, who held their father’s estate for her lifetime." }, { "name": "Gridley’s brother", "aliases": [ "the other son" ], "description": "Gridley’s brother, who claimed a £300 legacy under their father’s will. Their dispute over whether he had already received part of it led to the Chancery suit that ruined Gridley." }, { "name": "Coavinses", "aliases": [ "the stranger in the white coat", "the strange man", "Neckett" ], "description": "A debt officer who arrested Harold Skimpole and has since died. His name was Neckett; Mrs. Blinder says he gave a guinea to help his children, and other debt officers also contributed." }, { "name": "Coavinses’ successor", "aliases": [ "successor of Coavinses", "new officer" ], "description": "An unnamed debt officer who succeeds Neckett and takes possession of Mr. Skimpole’s house. He tells Skimpole that Neckett left three children and no mother." }, { "name": "Jo’s drover’s dog", "aliases": [ "drover’s dog" ], "description": "An educated working dog waiting outside a butcher’s shop while its master is away. It listens to a band with Jo and is described as skilled at herding sheep." }, { "name": "Zoodle", "aliases": [], "description": "A named figure at the end of a satirical list of office-holders who would not remedy the misery of Tom-all-Alone’s even over centuries." }, { "name": "Mrs. Bayham Badger", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Badger", "Mrs. Swosser", "Mrs. Dingo" ], "description": "Mr. Bayham Badger’s wife, about fifty, who was once passionately in love with her first husband, Captain Swosser. Drawing on her experience with young men in the Navy and at Professor Dingo’s lectures, she doubts that Richard is suited to medicine." }, { "name": "Captain Swosser", "aliases": [], "description": "Mrs. Bayham Badger’s first husband, a distinguished Royal Navy officer who fell in love with her aboard the ship Crippler. She recalls his advice about applying oneself fully to one’s profession." }, { "name": "Professor Dingo", "aliases": [], "description": "Mrs. Bayham Badger’s second husband, a botanist of European reputation whom Mr. Bayham Badger attended in his final illness. He was devoted to science and kept chipping with his geological hammer even while delirious." }, { "name": "coachman’s father", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed man whom Lawrence Boythorn calls a profligate coachman, as he does the coachman’s uncle." }, { "name": "coachman’s uncle", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed man whom Lawrence Boythorn calls a profligate coachman, as he does the coachman’s father." }, { "name": "Boythorn’s grey horse", "aliases": [ "comely grey horse" ], "description": "Lawrence Boythorn’s horse, which he rides alongside the carriage on the way to his home and dismounts from to welcome his guests." }, { "name": "Sir Leicester Dedlock’s uncle", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed man whom Lawrence Boythorn describes as one of the most profligate coachmen to have sat on a box." }, { "name": "Mrs. Turveydrop", "aliases": [ "the meek little dancing-mistress", "the sainted mother" ], "description": "The late wife of Mr. Turveydrop and mother of Prince. She worked herself to death to maintain her husband and, on her deathbed, urged Prince to honor and care for his father." }, { "name": "Mr. Rouncewell’s late father", "aliases": [ "old Squire Tom", "Squire Tom" ], "description": "A deceased Jarndyce family member whom Krook says he knew. Krook refers to him as old Squire Tom." }, { "name": "Coavinses’ blue-eyed daughter", "aliases": [ "Mr. Skimpole’s blue-eyed daughter" ], "description": "An unnamed daughter of Mr. Skimpole, mentioned as having celebrated her birthday on the day Coavinses’ successor came to the house." }, { "name": "Coavinses’ three children", "aliases": [ "Neckett’s children" ], "description": "Neckett’s three orphaned children, left without their mother and living in poverty in Bell Yard. They are Charley, Tom, and Emma." }, { "name": "the boy at Coavinses’ Castle", "aliases": [ "hideous boy at the spiked wicket" ], "description": "An unnamed boy who watches the spiked entrance at the debt officers’ office in Cursitor Street. He tells Jarndyce that the dead officer was Neckett and gives the address of Neckett’s children." }, { "name": "Neckett’s wife", "aliases": [ "Neckett children’s mother" ], "description": "The unnamed wife of Neckett and mother of Charley, Tom, and Emma. She died shortly after Emma was born." }, { "name": "Neckett’s former calling", "aliases": [ "the follower" ], "description": "An unnamed debt officer, mentioned by Mrs. Blinder as having lodged in her house before Neckett. She once gave him notice because other lodgers objected to his occupation, but kept him after finding him punctual and diligent." }, { "name": "Mr. Skimpole’s butcher", "aliases": [ "the butcher" ], "description": "An unnamed butcher who supplied Mr. Skimpole with meat and demanded payment for his bill. Skimpole recounts using the man’s literal delivery of meat to argue that intended payment should count as payment." }, { "name": "Mr. Skimpole’s medical attendant", "aliases": [ "the doctor" ], "description": "An unnamed doctor who treated Mr. Skimpole during an illness. Skimpole claims that his intention to pay doubled or quadrupled fees should count as payment." }, { "name": "censorious old lady at the dancing academy", "aliases": [ "old lady of the censorious countenance" ], "description": "An unnamed older woman whose two nieces attend Prince Turveydrop’s dancing class. She criticizes Mr. Turveydrop’s idleness and recounts how he exploited his wife and depends on his son." }, { "name": "censorious old lady’s nieces", "aliases": [ "the two nieces" ], "description": "Two unnamed girls who attend Prince Turveydrop’s dancing class and are the nieces of the censorious old lady." }, { "name": "young lady pupils at Turveydrop’s academy", "aliases": [ "dancing pupils" ], "description": "Unnamed girls and young women, ranging from about thirteen to their early twenties, who attend Prince Turveydrop’s dancing class." }, { "name": "beadle", "aliases": [ "active and intelligent", "Mooney" ], "description": "A district beadle who is summoned after Nemo’s death, arranges the inquest, and escorts the body for burial. The text identifies him in the press as Mooney, the active and intelligent beadle, and depicts him as inept and eager for public recognition." }, { "name": "policeman", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed policeman who keeps order outside Krook’s shop during the crowds after Nemo’s death and later attends the inquest proceedings." }, { "name": "Mrs. Piper’s husband", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed cabinet-maker and Mrs. Piper’s husband, mentioned in her inquest testimony." }, { "name": "Mrs. Green’s son", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed law-writer who knew Nemo better than anyone, according to neighborhood talk. He is away aboard a vessel bound for China and is not available to testify." }, { "name": "juryman attentive to Jo", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed juryman who asks the coroner whether Jo’s testimony can be received." }, { "name": "professional celebrity who chairs the Harmonic Meetings", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed gentleman who chairs the musical evenings at the Sol’s Arms, where Little Swills performs." }, { "name": "paupers assisting the burial", "aliases": [], "description": "Unnamed paupers whom the beadle gathers to help take Nemo’s body away for burial." }, { "name": "Nemo’s mother", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed woman recalled by the narrator as the loving mother at whose breast Nemo once nestled as a baby. The text wonders where she is at the time of his burial." }, { "name": "woman who once held Nemo in her heart", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed woman who may once have loved Nemo; the narrator wonders where she is while he is buried." }, { "name": "James", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed servant in the Bayham Badger household who is asked to bring Professor Dingo’s goblet and Captain Swosser’s wine." }, { "name": "Mr. Kenge’s cousin", "aliases": [ "Mr. Bayham Badger" ], "description": "Mr. Kenge’s cousin in the medical profession, a Chelsea practitioner who agrees to receive Richard into his household and supervise his medical studies." }, { "name": "Mrs. Pardiggle", "aliases": [], "description": "A forceful charitable campaigner who brings Esther and Ada on visits to poor families. Her loud, systematic approach alienates the brickmaker’s household, though Esther and Ada stay to comfort them." }, { "name": "Egbert Pardiggle", "aliases": [ "Egbert" ], "description": "Mrs. Pardiggle’s twelve-year-old eldest son, whose pocket money is controlled by his mother. He and his brothers pinch Esther during the visit to the brickmaker." }, { "name": "Oswald Pardiggle", "aliases": [ "Oswald" ], "description": "Mrs. Pardiggle’s ten-and-a-half-year-old second son, whose charitable contributions and allowance are controlled by his mother. He joins his brothers in pinching Esther." }, { "name": "Francis Pardiggle", "aliases": [ "Francis" ], "description": "Mrs. Pardiggle’s nine-year-old third son, whose charitable contributions and allowance are controlled by his mother. He joins his brothers in pinching Esther." }, { "name": "Felix Pardiggle", "aliases": [ "Felix" ], "description": "Mrs. Pardiggle’s seven-year-old fourth son. He stamps on Esther’s toes during the walk to the brickmaker’s." }, { "name": "Alfred Pardiggle", "aliases": [ "Alfred", "Bond of Joy" ], "description": "Mrs. Pardiggle’s five-year-old youngest son, enrolled in the Infant Bonds of Joy and denied cakes as well as tobacco. Esther calls him the Bond of Joy during the visit." }, { "name": "brickmaker’s baby", "aliases": [ "the little child", "the child" ], "description": "The brickmaker and Jenny’s sick infant, who dies while Ada and Esther are visiting. Esther covers the baby’s body with her handkerchief." }, { "name": "brickmaker’s son", "aliases": [ "powerful young man" ], "description": "An unnamed young man in the brickmaker’s household who fastens a collar on a dog and later takes the dog outside. He is seen with the dog on the way to the drinking-house that night." }, { "name": "brickmaker’s daughter", "aliases": [ "bold girl", "sister" ], "description": "An unnamed girl in the brickmaker’s household who is washing in dirty water during Mrs. Pardiggle’s visit. Later she stands laughing with other young women and turns away when Esther and Ada pass." }, { "name": "friends of the brickmaker’s son", "aliases": [ "two friends of the young man" ], "description": "Two unnamed men who gather in the cottage doorway and laugh along with the brickmaker’s son and daughter." }, { "name": "brickmaker’s dog", "aliases": [ "the dog" ], "description": "A dog in the brickmaker’s household, collared by the young man and made to bark during Mrs. Pardiggle’s visit." }, { "name": "Boythorn’s man", "aliases": [ "Mr. Boythorn’s man" ], "description": "An unnamed servant of Lawrence Boythorn who accompanies him to Bleak House and brings Boythorn’s canary into the dining room." }, { "name": "Boythorn’s canary’s father", "aliases": [ "the canary’s father" ], "description": "A canary, mentioned by Boythorn as having been one of the most astonishing birds he ever knew." }, { "name": "Mr. Peffer", "aliases": [ "Peffer" ], "description": "The deceased former partner of Mr. Snagsby, with whom Snagsby established the law-stationery business. He has been buried for twenty-five years." }, { "name": "Mr. Tulkinghorn’s middle-aged man", "aliases": [ "middle-aged man in the pew" ], "description": "An unnamed, often idle man who sits in the hall of Mr. Tulkinghorn’s chambers. He knows little about the lawyer’s clients or affairs." }, { "name": "Scotch medical man", "aliases": [ "testy medical man" ], "description": "An unnamed doctor with a broad Scottish accent, summoned to examine Nemo. He pronounces Nemo dead and estimates he has been dead for about three hours." }, { "name": "Bleak House housemaid with keys", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed maid who brings Esther the housekeeping and cellar keys and later summons her to Skimpole’s room when he is arrested for debt." }, { "name": "Sir Morbury Dedlock", "aliases": [], "description": "A former owner of Chesney Wold during the English Civil War, described by Mrs. Rouncewell as a royalist. His wife opposed the royalist cause, and their troubled marriage is central to the legend of the Ghost’s Walk." }, { "name": "Lady Morbury Dedlock", "aliases": [ "Sir Morbury Dedlock’s Lady", "Sir Morbury’s Lady" ], "description": "Sir Morbury Dedlock’s wife, said to have aided the royalist cause’s enemies and hated the Dedlock family after her brother was killed by Sir Morbury’s kinsman. According to the family legend, she was lamed during a struggle in the stables, died on the terrace, and vowed to walk there until the family’s pride was humbled." }, { "name": "Lady Morbury Dedlock’s brother", "aliases": [ "her favourite brother" ], "description": "A young gentleman and brother of Lady Morbury Dedlock, killed in the civil wars by a close kinsman of Sir Morbury Dedlock." }, { "name": "Sir Morbury Dedlock’s near kinsman", "aliases": [ "Sir Morbury’s near kinsman" ], "description": "An unnamed close relative of Sir Morbury Dedlock who killed Lady Morbury’s brother in the civil wars." }, { "name": "young gardener at Chesney Wold", "aliases": [ "the young gardener" ], "description": "An unnamed young gardener who opens the shutters during the tour of Chesney Wold and guides Mr. Guppy and his friend downstairs." }, { "name": "old roan horse", "aliases": [ "the old roan" ], "description": "A horse in the Chesney Wold stables, famous for cross-country work. The narrator imagines him recalling open-air rides during the rain." }, { "name": "grey horse", "aliases": [ "the grey" ], "description": "A horse stabled at Chesney Wold who wistfully turns toward the door when it opens. The narrator imagines him anticipating a ride." }, { "name": "mastiff", "aliases": [], "description": "A dog dozing in a kennel in the Chesney Wold courtyard. The narrator imagines him longing for sunshine, company, and something to worry besides himself and his chain." }, { "name": "Rouncewell’s younger son’s wife", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Rouncewell’s daughter-in-law" ], "description": "The wife of Mrs. Rouncewell’s younger son and mother of Watt; she is mentioned but does not appear." }, { "name": "Mrs. Rouncewell’s sons’ father", "aliases": [ "Watt’s grandfather" ], "description": "Mrs. Rouncewell’s late husband and Watt’s paternal grandfather." }, { "name": "Mr. Pardiggle", "aliases": [ "O. A. Pardiggle, F.R.S." ], "description": "Mrs. Pardiggle’s husband and the father of her five sons. He contributes money to causes under his wife’s direction." }, { "name": "Mr. Gusher", "aliases": [], "description": "A fervent, impassioned public speaker known to Mrs. Pardiggle, who says he can speak for hours at a public meeting." }, { "name": "person in pattens", "aliases": [ "Jellyby cook" ], "description": "An unnamed woman at the Jellybys’ house, apparently the cook. She pokes at a child with a broom and quarrels with the young woman who waits at dinner." }, { "name": "Jellyby housemaid with flannel bandage", "aliases": [ "young woman with the flannel bandage" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman with a swollen face bound in flannel who tends the fire, waits at dinner, and drives the Jellyby children to bed. Caddy says she drinks heavily." }, { "name": "Jellyby milkman", "aliases": [ "milkman" ], "description": "An unnamed milkman who tries to free Peepy from the railings by pulling his legs, before Esther suggests a safer way." }, { "name": "Jellyby beadle", "aliases": [ "beadle" ], "description": "An unnamed beadle who joins the milkman in trying to pull Peepy from the railings by his legs." }, { "name": "Jellyby child who falls downstairs", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed Jellyby child who falls down a flight of stairs while Esther and Ada arrive. The passage does not establish whether this is Peepy or another child." }, { "name": "Jellyby child lost in Newgate Market", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed Jellyby child who goes missing for an hour and a half and is brought home from Newgate Market by a policeman. The passage does not identify the child by name." }, { "name": "Tom Jarndyce", "aliases": [ "old Tom Jarndyce" ], "description": "A party to the Jarndyce family suit who often visited Krook’s shop and warned people to stay out of Chancery. In despair over his case, he shot himself at a tavern in Chancery Lane." }, { "name": "Mrs. Jellyby’s letter recipient", "aliases": [ "Mr. Swallow" ], "description": "A person to whom Mrs. Jellyby dictates a letter about the African project; no further information is given." }, { "name": "stagecoach gentleman", "aliases": [ "gentleman in the coach" ], "description": "An unnamed traveler who noticed Esther crying, offered her food, and advised her to study and be good. Esther recognizes him as John Jarndyce, who had encountered her on her journey to Reading six years earlier." }, { "name": "Jellyby post-boy", "aliases": [ "post-boy" ], "description": "An unnamed driver who takes Esther, Ada, and Richard to Bleak House and tells Richard that the waggon carrying John Jarndyce’s notes is going to London." }, { "name": "waggoner carrying John Jarndyce’s notes", "aliases": [ "waggoner" ], "description": "An unnamed waggoner who delivers John Jarndyce’s letters to Esther, Ada, and Richard while traveling toward London." }, { "name": "policeman who returns a Jellyby child", "aliases": [ "policeman" ], "description": "An unnamed policeman who brings a lost Jellyby child home from Newgate Market." }, { "name": "Jellyby cat", "aliases": [ "the cat" ], "description": "A cat in the Jellyby household that sometimes drinks the milk left for Mr. Jellyby." }, { "name": "Charles Dickens", "aliases": [], "description": "Author of the book; excluded from the story’s character list." }, { "name": "Mr. Tangle", "aliases": [], "description": "A Chancery barrister famed for his knowledge of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which he has apparently studied to the exclusion of everything else." }, { "name": "Mr. Blowers", "aliases": [], "description": "An eminent silk-gowned barrister mentioned in a joke about how long Jarndyce and Jarndyce may continue." }, { "name": "sallow prisoner", "aliases": [ "solitary surviving executor" ], "description": "A prisoner repeatedly brought before the court over contempt and disputed accounts he is not said to have understood." }, { "name": "Mr. Lewes", "aliases": [], "description": "A friend of the author who published letters arguing that spontaneous combustion was impossible." }, { "name": "Megalosaurus", "aliases": [], "description": "A dinosaur imagined by the narrator as a possible sight in the muddy streets of London." }, { "name": "Chancery advocate", "aliases": [ "large advocate with great whiskers" ], "description": "An unnamed barrister addressing the Chancellor in Jarndyce and Jarndyce; he has large whiskers, a small voice, and an interminable brief." }, { "name": "Chancery registrar", "aliases": [ "registrar" ], "description": "An unnamed court officer who sits below the judge." }, { "name": "very little counsel", "aliases": [ "cousin several times removed" ], "description": "An unnamed barrister who claims to represent a cousin of the young people in the suit, though he cannot specify their degree of relation." }, { "name": "young girl in Jarndyce and Jarndyce", "aliases": [ "young girl" ], "description": "One of two young people whose residence with their grandfather is being considered by the Chancellor; she is not identified by name here." }, { "name": "young boy in Jarndyce and Jarndyce", "aliases": [ "young boy" ], "description": "One of two young people whose residence with their grandfather is being considered by the Chancellor; he is not identified by name here." }, { "name": "Mr. Sladdery", "aliases": [], "description": "A librarian who boasts that he can steer fashionable society’s tastes and influence its leaders." }, { "name": "Dolly", "aliases": [ "Esther’s doll", "dear old doll" ], "description": "Esther Summerson’s childhood doll and confidante, to whom she tells her secrets when she is lonely." }, { "name": "Esther’s father", "aliases": [ "Esther’s papa" ], "description": "Esther’s absent father, whom Esther has never known; 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