A character in Great Expectations
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Miss Havisham's beautiful, cold adopted ward, reared to be proud and to torment the men who admire her, and the object of Pip's hopeless love.
Also known as: the young lady
Inside the story
Estella is Miss Havisham’s beautiful adopted ward, raised in her secluded household to be proud and cold toward the men who admire her. At the story’s outset, she becomes the focus of Pip’s hopeless love while keeping him at a distance.
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