Miss Havisham, the astringent crone from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, has captivated and horrified generations of readers. Her life was unspeakably grim — bitter self-exile in a ...

I write about fashion, power and what powerful people wear. The young designer Prabal Gurung's collection was more Miss Havisham-gone-bad than tragic jilted bride. His models looked slightly ...

Pip thinks the money is coming from Miss Havisham and that she means it to ... that almost makes Dickens the one thing his greatest books never are: boring. Only the action-packed melodramatic ...

Because I want to say that she was born to play Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham ... Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years.

Sponsor Message On a scene in the book, straight from Dickens, in which Miss Havisham tells Pip to walk her around the room It's simply a case of a degree of physical intimacy between the two of ...

Miss Havisham - from Great Expectations - is one of Charles Dickens's most memorable characters and is the twentieth in our series of his best characters. Gillian Anderson starred as the disturbed ...

In the two photos released Tuesday morning, Colman’s elderly Miss Havisham appears to be in the ... Dickens released the first installment of the book in December 1860. Chapters were released ...

In a tragic accident, Miss Havisham is horribly burned when her wedding dress catches fire and she dies shortly afterwards. Eccentric Miss Havisham hides herself away, wears only her wedding ...