Estella (Great Expectations)
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Estella Havisham is a significant character in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations.
Estella with Miss Havisham and Pip. Art by H. M. Brock.
Estella and Pip. Art by F. A. Fraser.
Pip and Estella's meeting at the end of Great Expectations; engraving by Marcus Stone
Miss Havisham
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Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens's 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.
Estella (Great Expectations)
…an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady. Estella is widely believed to have been partially based on Ellen Lawless Ternan, a young actress who was Dickens' mistress from 1857…
Miss Havisham, by Harry Furniss
"It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" – Miss Havisham