Inside the story
Meet Miss Havisham
Miss Havisham is a wealthy, reclusive spinster who was jilted on her wedding day. She lives in a decaying house where the clocks have stopped, and raises Estella according to her bitter view of love and men.
On the page
A shrunken, sunken-eyed old woman dressed in a yellowed, faded white wedding gown and veil, a single shoe on, withered bridal flowers in her white hair and jewels scattered about; her dim room and stopped watch frozen at twenty minutes to nine.
