[John Forster ], from an unsigned review, Examiner

… Some are in raptures over one part, some over another, and some very particular fellows are carping at every part. The judgments on Bleak House are, in short, as various as judgments are apt to be upon a man whose failings it is thought a subtle test of criticism to discover, for the very reason that all the world admires and likes him, and his books are bought and read by everybody.