Fictional character in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations
Fictional character
Miss Havisham
Great Expectations character
Miss Havisham, by Harry Furniss
Created by
Charles Dickens
Based on
Possibly Eliza Emily Donnithorne or Margaret Catherine Dick
Portrayed by
Gillian Anderson Anne Bancroft Helena Bonham Carter Joan Hickson Martita Hunt Margaret Leighton Tuppence Middleton Charlotte Rampling Florence Reed Jean Simmons Tabu Olivia Colman
In-universe information
Gender
Female
Occupation
None (heiress and recluse)
Family
Arthur Havisham (half brother)
Significant other
Compeyson (former fiancé)
Children
Estella (adoptive daughter)
Relatives
Pocket family (cousins) Cousin Raymond Georgiana Camilla Bentley Drummle (son-in-law)
Religion
Church of England[1]
Nationality
English
Miss Havisham
is a character in the Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations. She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place". In the novel, she schemes to have the young orphan, Pip, fall in love with Estella, so that Estella can "break his heart."
Although she has often been portrayed in film versions as very elderly, Dickens's own notes indicate that she is only in her mid-thirties at the start of the novel. However, it is indicated in the novel that her long seclusion without sunlight has aged her. She is one of the most gothic characters in the work of Dickens.[2]
^In Chapter VIII, mention is made of her having "a Prayer-Book all confusedly heaped about the looking-glass."
^"The Gothic in Great Expectations". British Library. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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