Abel Magwitch is a major fictional character from Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations.
Abel Magwitch by 'Kyd' (c.1900)
Magwitch makes himself known to Pip
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman & Hall published the novel in three volumes.
Title page of Vol. I of first edition, July 1861
Pip is ashamed of Joe at Satis House, by Francis Arthur Fraser
Miss Havisham with Estella and Pip. Art by H. M. Brock
Magwitch makes himself known to Pip