Keywords Great Expectations, Dickens, Miss Havisham, Estella, Magwitch, Pip, ethics, Kant, identity, tragedy, Victorian ...

Miss Havisham offers to shape Pip into a gentleman in exchange for spending time with Estella. The well-meaning adult who brokers the agreement isn't aware of her true purpose for extending her ...

Miss Havisham has been betrayed by a single man and now wishes to get even with mankind in general. Everything she does (especially with Estella) is to achieve that purpose.

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 ...

Miss Havisham is one of Charles Dickens' most enduring characters. She appears in Great Expectations as an eccentric recluse, jilted at the altar years ago, who still wears her wedding gown and ...

Playing the hideous Miss Havisham was a stretch for the actress, who looks a good deal younger than her 60 years. ”I`m afraid I didn`t have to spend that much time in makeup,” she said modestly.

Odyssey Opera’s double bill of one-singer, one-act operas, Dominick Argento’s “Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night” and “A Water Bird Talk,” presented over the weekend in Suffolk ...

Miss Havisham, the jilted, embittered spinster from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, provided inspiration for not one but two shows at New York Fashion Week. But of course: Deranged brides are ...

Miss Havisham, as you probably learned in high school or college, is the elderly jilted bride in Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations.” ...

ast month, 22 years after its premiere at the New York City Opera, Dominick Argento's "Miss Havisham's Fire" got a second chance at Opera Theater of Saint Louis. In its original incarnation, the ...

In the film adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," we follow the journey of Pip, a young boy whose life is forever altered after meeting the escaped convict Magwitch in a desolate ...