In the novel, Sir Leicester Dedlock and his wife Honoria live on his estate at Chesney Wold. In a preface to the 1853 first edition, Dickens claimed there were many actual precedents for his fictional case. At the centre of Bleak House is a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which came about because a testator wrote several conflicting wills. Dickens wrote his ninth novel Bleak House at that perfect hinge in his career when he was finally able to channel his creative exuberance into a sustained and sophisticated piece of narrative art. Despite his lack of formal education, he became the most popular novelist of his time and remains one of the best-known English authors. Charles John Huffam Dickens, an English writer and social critic, was born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison.
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