Esther Summerson
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Esther Summerson is the compassionate, self-effacing young heroine and one of the central narrators of Charles Dickens’s novel "Bleak House."
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Esther Summerson in Bleak House | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ narrator ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| alias | Miss Esther Summerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Bleak House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInPublicationYear | 1852–1853 serialisation of Bleak House ⓘ |
| associatedWithInstitution | Court of Chancery (indirectly through Jarndyce and Jarndyce) ⓘ |
| biologicalFather | Captain Hawdon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| biologicalMother | Lady Dedlock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralThemeConnection |
family secrets
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identity ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| characterArc | from self-doubt to greater self-acceptance ⓘ |
| closeRelationship |
Ada Clare
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Allan Woodcourt NERFINISHED ⓘ John Jarndyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Charles Dickens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Bleak House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Bleak House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| guardian | John Jarndyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| healthEvent | contracts smallpox-like illness ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | one of the earliest complex female narrators in Dickens ⓘ |
| literaryWorkGenre | Victorian novel ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Allan Woodcourt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moralView | values duty and humility ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | contrasts with omniscient third-person narrator ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central narrator
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co-narrator ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation |
companion
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housekeeper ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
compassionate
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dutiful ⓘ kind ⓘ modest ⓘ self-effacing ⓘ |
| physicalConsequence | facial scarring after illness ⓘ |
| raisedAs | orphan ⓘ |
| raisedBy | godmother ⓘ |
| relationship | ward of John Jarndyce ⓘ |
| residesAt | Bleak House (residence of John Jarndyce) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInPlot |
provides domestic and emotional center of the novel
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reveals mystery of Lady Dedlock ⓘ |
| setting | 19th-century England ⓘ |
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Esther Summerson in Bleak House