Excerpt from The Works of Charles Dickens: With the Life of Dickens
The internal history of "Bleak House" is not of unusual interest. A year elapsed between the completion of "Copperfield" and the beginning of the new novel, in Dickens"s new abode in Tavistock Square, which suggested that of Mr. Tulkinghom. November, 1851, saw the story commenced, and November may have suggested the description of a "London particular" in fogs. They have been a curse since the Restoration, at least, and, whatever may be the case with Chancery, they grow worse rather than better. But not even Dickens could "write them down." Dickens wavered between many titles, and "Tom-all-Alone"s" seems originally to have been the name of the house which got into Chancery. Dickens did not find himself at home with his work. He suspected himself of hypochondria, and had a sense of overwork. This may have been the result of the energy which he put into editing "Household Words," and the inevitable troubles with contributors. He felt as if his mind had been "materialised, and drawn along the tops of all the spikes on the outside of the Queen"s Bench Prison;" all this on account of some "jolter-headed" article in his serial. He found rest at Dover and Boulogne, and pleasure in the success of his novel. "I like the conclusion very much, and think it very pretty indeed. The story has taken extraordinarily, especially during the last five or six months... It has retained its immense circulation from the first, beating dear old "Copperfield" by a round ten thousand or more. I have never had so many readers." Visiting London in September, 1853, Dickens saw a solitary being in a trunk-shop, "absorbed in a book which, on a close inspection, I found to be "Bleak House." " The last number appeared in September, 1853.
The purpose of "Bleak House" is, of course, didactic.
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