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A study guide for The Woman in Black by Susan Hill for English Literature GCSE students. Includes quotations, context and a timeline for essential content needed for the exam.
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Plot Characters
Overview: Starting in present day, AK is going to tell us a story from his youth, Thus involves him as Arthur Kipps: pragmatic, rational and a little Betrayal - Was Jennet b
a young lawyer working under Mr B. He get’s sent to Crythin Gifford to sort through the papers of AD boring.His first response to TWIB is that she;s a poor to give up Nathaniel? O
at EMH. On the train AK meets SD. He starts to see flashes of TWIB from the funeral of AD onwards. woman with a disease. He relishes the mundane better life? Was Arthur b
He stays over in EMH and SD finally tells him the whole story and about the curse. TWIB in actually parts of life with Esme. He is a Modern Young Man -
AD’s sister, JH who had a son out of wedlock and who was adopted by AD and hubby as she often reducing the villager to silly village folk. TWIB Isolation - set in the mi
couldn’t have children. The boy and nanny drowned in the marshes in an accident and JH saw the will never really leave AK - he;s scarred. and fogs. Arthur finds h
whole thing, Curse = every time we see TWIB a child dies. No child has died yet, so AK hops back society at EMH. It is phy
Jennet Humpfrye - angry and filled with vengeance finds happiness again w
to London, marries Stella and has a baby. One day at a fair, the baby and Stella have a pony and
- this is a ghost like no other. She is a woman the hours of his youth.
trap ride, then AK sees TWIB and she steps out and spooks the horse. Stella and the baby dies.
wronged, or worse - a mother wronged. She didn’t
want to give up her baby at all. She haunts the town Revenge - JH is all abo
1. Christmas Eve - AK at a family Christmas at his house Monk’s Piece. His second wife and step-
after death for revenge, killing the children of others. death was no one’s faul
children surround him. They begin telling ghost stories and AK freaks out, runs away and then
people’s children and A
decides to write his story. Sam Daily - to AK Sam is a country bumpkin. Sam is
friendly however, and keeps an eye for AK. He also Fear - What causes it? W
2. A London Particular - November, 23 year old AK works for Mr B, He is going to EMH to sort out has a nice dog. He does appear as AKs saviour prompt us to do? Is it ju
the affairs of AD and attend the funeral. EMH is located just outside the village of Crythin Gifford. Mr when things get freaky. we're sitting safely by th
B says, “See you in a day or two.” primitive and profound p
Alice Drablow: Jennet’s sister and owner of EMH.
3. The Journey North - on a train looking through AD’s file, AK meets SD who shows some interest Strong arms Jennet into giving up her baby as AD Appearances - it;s not
in his file. SD gives him a ride in an automobile. cannot have any children of her own. seems. Appearances m
character details.
4.The Funeral of Mrs Drablow - SD drops him at the hotel, everyone is very hush hush about AD. Mr Jerome: we get one sense from Mr J and that’s
Mr J, Ads agent picks AK up. Mr J and AK attend the funeral and AK sees TWIB. Mr J gets all funny. fear. A squirrelly little man who is super scared of Memory and the Past -
TWIB - so much so that all he says is that he can’t memory lane which is li
5.Across the Causeway - Keckwick arrives with a pony and trap to take AK to EMH. Due to 9LC help AK.
and the road being hidden, AK decides to get clothes and food and stay over the next day. He see Supernatural - TWIB is
Mr Bentley: AK’s employer who sends him on his details that point toward
TWIB again. Seeing all the paper, he realises this will be a much bigger job, so starts to walk back
fateful trip for Crythin Gifford. Thought AK doesn’t doesn’t leave any room
across 9LC.
blame Mr B, he certainly is a catalyst for the events a way for AK to deal wit
6. The Sound of a Pony and Trap - Fog and tide approach, AK can’t see EMH or CG. He hears the that follow.
sound of a pony and trap being sucked into the mud and a child dying. He runs back to EMH. Very Man and the Natural W
Keckwick: Driver of the pony and trap, he rarely London = man made an
scared, tries to open a locked door, Kekciwck picks him up at 2am. speaks, however he does represent AK’s one have power over AK.
connection with the town. He also looks out for AK,
7. Mr Jerome is Afraid - AK decides to pass the AD affairs to Mr J. Mr J says absolutely not and Madness - JH’s anger a
like Sam.
some other vague things about stores and ghouls. AK writes a letter to Mr B saying it will take crazy. Confronting the re
several days. Stella: AK’s fiancee and moth of Joseph. She is crazy, or feel crazy at an
clearly a refuge, something to look forward to during
8. Spider - AK has dinner with SD, and decides to spend 2 nights at EMH. SD thinks it’;s a bad idea, his time in CG. Stella represents everything that is Exploration - AK may b
so offers his dog Spider as company. safe and normal. She represents to us, that the past CG to find the truth. He
can reach you wherever you are and Arthur spends explore EMH and it’s inh
9. In the Nursery - Mr B okays AK staying longer at EMH. He wakes in the night to Spider growling. 10 long months watching her die and grieving for Joe
He follows her, hears noises. The following day he finds a packet of letters from JH. He’s hears the Key
pony and trap sound and Spider starts growling. He realises it’s a ghost sound and somehow Esme: she represents his second chance at
London - Where AK live
discovers the locked room is no longer locked… and it’s a nursery. happiness - after all that WIB business.She is a safe
back there to marry Ste
place for AK to rebuild his life.
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