Bleak House
Americannoun
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West, who was married to actress Prunella Scales for more than 60 years, appeared in TV sitcoms Not Going Out, dramas such as Bleak House and Gentleman Jack, and soaps Coronation Street and EastEnders.
From BBC • May 22, 2025
At the end of a book tour in the U.K., on a whim, I booked myself into this bed-and-breakfast that was called Bleak House, and it’s where Charles Dickens used to live.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023
Kingsolver was touring in England for her 2018 book, “Unsheltered,” when she discovered that Bleak House, where Dickens wrote much of “David Copperfield,” was a bed-and-breakfast.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022
Indeed, the six-year battle over Richard Mellon Scaife's trust could have been ripped from the pages of Charles Dickens' "Bleak House."
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2021
There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The East of the Mohicans.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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