Chesney Wold and the Mystery of the Ghosts Walk
Another side to 'Bleak House' "The rain is ever falling, drip, drip, drip, by day and night, upon the broad flagged terrace - pavement, The Ghosts Walk." Personally I regard 'Bleak House' as Charles Dickens's masterpiece: The longest of his novels, and one that includes 'social concerns' with its blistering attacks on both rural and urban poverty. But also looms as a forerunner of the later sensation novel genre-with illegitimacy, scandal, stalking, drug use, spontaneous combustion as significant themes. There is also a detective story, an infamous long drawn out legal battle where only the lawyers are victorious. Not to mention a ghost tale. In chapter seven of 'Bleak House' we are introduced to 'Chesney Wold', the country mansion in rural Lincolnshire, where Lord and Lady Dedlock reside at least part of the year. We are presented with an array of horses, pigeo