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	Miss Havisham
		Miss Havisham's position in society is fixed in the upper class because of her wealth.
		Miss Havisham's unique economic and social position allows for this respect and authority with others; without it, she would be classified as any other spinster and treated accordingly.
		Miss Havisham exhibits this sense of authority in her relationships with Pip and Estella.
	www.umd.umich.edu /casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/MISSHAVI.htm (0 words)

	Miss Havisham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Miss Havisham's and Estella's interaction with Pip, the protagonist of the story, a poor working-class boy called by Miss Havisham to her estate to entertain her, forms one of the central threads of the plot.
		Miss Havisham is a contradictory character in literature and in the context of her time.
		Miss Havisham is repentant late in the novel when she realizes that she has caused Pip’s heart to be broken in the same manner as her own; rather than achieving any kind of personal revenge, she has only caused more pain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miss_Havisham (1290 words)

	Miss Havisham
		Miss Havisham - Miss Havisham is the wealthy, eccentric old woman who lives in a manor called Satis House near Pip’s village.
		She is manic and often seems insane, flitting around her house in a faded wedding dress, keeping a decaying feast on her table, and surrounding herself with clocks stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
		As a young woman, Miss Havisham was jilted by her fiancé minutes before her wedding, and now she has a vendetta against all men.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/greatex/terms/char_3.html (99 words)

	Great Expectations at AllExperts
		Miss Havisham explains to Pip that she sometimes has the "sick fancy" to see children play, and directs Pip to "play." Pip is taken aback at the unusual request and dark, gloomy setting, so Miss Havisham tells Estella to play cards with him.
		Miss Havisham detests the Pockets as she believes that they only pay tribute to her because they expect to get her money when she dies, though Herbert's father is not one of those who will flatter her in the hope of inheritance.
		"Is it Havisham, or —" "It is Havisham" affirms Jaggers.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/gr/great_expectations.htm (12097 words)

	Miss Havisham (In-Depth Analysis)
		The mad, vengeful Miss Havisham, a wealthy dowager who lives in a rotting mansion and wears an old wedding dress every day of her life, is not exactly a believable character, but she is certainly one of the most memorable creations in the book.
		Miss Havisham’s life is defined by a single tragic event: her jilting by Compeyson on what was to have been their wedding day.
		Miss Havisham is an example of single-minded vengeance pursued destructively: both Miss Havisham and the people in her life suffer greatly because of her quest for revenge.
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	Pip, Estella, and Miss Havisham
		Miss Havisham and Satis House, both in ruins, represent wealth and social status for Pip; the irony is obvious.
		Miss Havisham and her decayed house have another relationship; it parallels the diseased state of her mind.
		Surrounded by Miss Havisham's conniving relatives and impressed by her example and teachings, Estella is an emotionally abused child.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/novel_19c/dickens/love.html (0 words)

	[Miss Havisham's Objectification of Estella]
		Paralleling Miss Havisham's view of her, this portrayal of Estella, which creates her more as an object rather than a person, constructs her as a valuable commodity because of her beauty.
		In producing Estella to take revenge on the men who took public and economic advantage of her private sexual desires Miss Havisham only succeeds in duplicating the experience for her own adoptive daughter, making the girl a thing to be bartered in the marriage market.
		Miss Havisham uses the jewelry to objectify Estella and call attention to her sexuality.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /victorian/authors/dickens/ge/gerao1.html (651 words)

	Great Expectations, Charles Dickens - Section 29 of 59 - Book Club/Fiction - ArcaMax Publishing
		Miss Havisham had seen him as soon as I, and was (like everybody else) afraid of him.
		Very fine young lady!" Then he pushed Miss Havisham in her chair before him, with one of his large hands, and put the other in his trousers-pocket as if the pocket were full of secrets.
		I think Miss Pocket was conscious that the sight of me involved her in the danger of being goaded to madness, and perhaps tearing off her cap,--which was a very hideous one, in the nature of a muslin mop,--and strewing the ground with her hair,--which assuredly had never grown on her head.
	www.arcamax.com /fiction/b-1215-29 (3920 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Great Expectations Study Guide
		Miss Havisham has Pip walk her around the room as four guests are brought in: Sarah Pocket, a "vicious," "dry, brown, corrugated woman;" Georgiana, "the grave lady;" Camilla, an old melodramatic woman; and her husband, Cousin Raymond.
		All are, apparently, the same age or a little younger than the withered Miss Havisham and all come to see her on the same day of the year: her birthday, which also happens to be the day when the cake was set out and the clocks were stopped so many years ago; i.e.
		Miss Havisham is well aware of this, and a number of times refers to her dead body laid out as a meal for her relatives on the same table where her decaying cake now sits.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/greatexpectations/section4.html (2694 words)

	filmsR
		Miss Havisham is represented very differently in the 1998 than the BBC film.
		The removal of the dismal, spectral image of Miss Havisham and the insertion of Miss Dinsmoore as a light, amusing character is a dramatic change that gives a lighter tone to the movie.
		Miss Havisham is adorned in the expected tattered wedding dress and has a countenance of utter despair throughout the entire film.
	staff.washington.edu /cgiacomi/courses/english200/finalprojects/websiter/filmsR.html (859 words)

	86.01.03: Familial Relationships in Great Expectations: The Search for Identity
		Miss Havisham is a matriarchal person whose bitter attitude toward men stems from her ill-fated wedding plans many years earlier.
		First, Estella in the Havisham household and her attitude toward men nurtured by the jilted matriarch who is so central to the novel completes Dickens’ characterization of the elderly would-be bride as a symbol of antifamily.
		One could argue that Miss Havisham is a tool of Dickens’ then developing literary art and merely a vehicle to add a certain mystique and intrigue to the life of the novel’s hero.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1986/1/86.01.03.x.html (4892 words)

	Great Expectations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Miss Havisham detests the Pockets as she believes that they only pay tribute to her because they expect to inherit her money when she dies, even though Herbert's father is one of the few uninterested in flattering her for this.
		Miss Havisham also agrees that she took advantage of the fact that the Pocket family thought Pip was their rival for Miss Havisham’s money, and that she took pleasure in letting them think so.
		Miss Havisham reacts to this by placing her hand on her heart, but Estella is unmoved, saying that he can stir no emotions in her heart.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Expectations (8397 words)

	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Detailed Book Review
		He is summoned by a weird old lady named Miss Havisham who has left all the clocks in her mansion stopped at the time of her wedding, and the wedding breakfast moldering on the table, after being jilted by the groom.
		Miss Havisham has an adopted daughter Estella whom she raises to break men's hearts and to be cold.
		Miss Havisham raised Estella to be cruel to men, playing with their hearts and affections.
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/Info_1937.asp (1483 words)

	Great Expectations (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pip is introduced to Miss Havisham, an eccentric old woman, and her charge, Estella, with whom Pip falls in love.
		Estella has been taught by Miss Havisham to break men's hearts as restitution for Miss Havisham's having been left at the altar years before by Compeyson, who later turns out to be a convict who was once partnered with Magwitch.
		Later Miss Havisham is repentant and begs Pip to forgive her.
	www.fidnet.com /~dap1955/dickens/expectations.html (2073 words)

	ebook, Great Expectations, Chapter 44
		Miss Havisham motioning to me for the third or fourth time to sit down, I took the chair by the dressing-table, which I had often seen her occupy.
		Miss Havisham continued to look steadily at me. I could see in the action of Estella's fingers as they worked, that she attended to what I said: but she did not look up.
		Miss Havisham gives you to him, as the greatest slight and injury that could be done to the many far better men who admire you, and to the few who truly love you.
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	Chapter 44 Page 1
		In the room where the dressing-table stood, and where the wax candles burnt on the wall, I found Miss Havisham and Estella; Miss Havisham seated on a settee near the fire, and Estella on a cushion at her feet.
		Miss Havisham motioning to me for the third or fourth time to sit down, I took the chair by the dressing-table, which I had often seen her occupy.
		Miss Havisham continued to look steadily at me. I could see in the action of Estella's fingers as they worked, that she attended to what I said: but she did not look up.
	www.web-books.com /Classics/Dickens/Expect/Expect44_1.htm (849 words)

	Havisham - BPAL Madness!
		Havisham has some of the same notes--the clear white floral, fresh and unforgettable, a touch of rose and many other notes--but it has a brooding quality that it totally different from WL.
		I missed it when it first came out (I was still a newbie and tried to buy an imp of it, silly me.) and I was really upset about it.
		Havisham seemed to vanish on my skin after a while, though at the moment my nose is a bit touchy.
	www.bpal.org /index.php?showtopic=3316 (2506 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hey Democrats, election's over (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Too grotesque to be believable even to our youthful imaginations, Miss Havisham remains stuck in the humiliating moment when she was left at the altar.
		Miss Havisham's harsh vendetta wastes her own life, inflicts great pain and disrupts the future.
		I'm afraid too many Miss Havisham Democrats, and their elected representatives, will be unable to resist the opportunity for a highly public and embarrassing meltdown.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2005-10-05-democrats-edit_x.htm (696 words)

	Discovering Dickens - A Community Reading Project
		Last time, we saw Pip return to Miss Havisham's, and were introduced to her poorer relations -- Sarah Pocket, Cousin Raymond, and Miss Camilla -- as well as to a strange gentleman Pip passed coming out of Miss Havisham's chambers.
		This time, Miss Havisham asked Pip to help her walk around a room where a decaying, spider-infested bride cake stood on the table.
		When Joe presented himself, Miss Havisham told him that Pip had earned a premium with her, and gave him a sum sufficient to buy Pip's apprenticeship (which Joe would otherwise have waved).
	dickens.stanford.edu /great/great_issue5.html (266 words)

	..:: crl: 2005: Fever: Stephanie Wagner ::..
		Even all the clocks in Miss Havisham's house are stuck at twenty minutes to nine; a record of the moment when she heard that she would not become a wife.
		Despite Miss Havisham's tragic response to her canceled wedding, Dickens creates a character so absurd and over-the-top that readers have to stifle their laughter while feeling sorry for her at the same time.
		Like Miss Havisham, it is so over-the-top in its pastel yellow glory that you cannot help but smile as you slowly walk around the work.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~crlab/2005_07_fever/wagner.html (755 words)

	Great Expectations
		Another is the weird birthday party Miss Havisham had with her relatives.
		Miss Havisham's house is a dark and spooky house.
		Miss Havisham treated her relatives in weird ways.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/papers/stack25_3.html (403 words)

	Post-mortem Pip
		Havisham's single goal is to take revenge on the gender that jilted her at the altar.
		It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did.
		However, years later when Pip confronts Miss Havisham about her deception in leading him to believe that she was his benefactress in order to ask her to help Herbert Pocket, Pip’s subtlety is successful.
	www.ux1.eiu.edu /~cfbhl/postmortempip.htm (2989 words)

	havisham commentary
		Perhaps Miss defines the character socially - whereas the poem concentrates on the nature of the character's individual feelings - the character's psychological/sexual nature, rather than her social being.
		Duffy is interested in the unstable combination of desire and hatred; Havisham's desire - her sexual being - is not simply cancelled out by the unreliability of the bridegroom: it continues, as Havisham's body must continue - in an uncertain, knotted compound.
		The tone of this line is a world away from Dickens' Miss Havisham; it sounds more like a kind of psychopathic Mae West in its flip sexual aggression.
	www.stevebrown.clara.net /html/havisham_commentary.htm (798 words)

	Victorian Lives and Letters 1996-1998: Re: Miss Havisham
		You ask what made me imagine Miss Havisham.
		Miss Havisham grew in part, I think I can say, out of my preoccupation, around 1860, with the effects of brooding upon ancient wrongs, something I had experienced myself, dwelling upon painful episodes in my childhood.
		It was impossible for her not to enter my mind, when I was conceiving Miss Havisham.
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	CliffsNotes::Great Expectations:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Miss Havisham was proud, beautiful, passionate, and headstrong, things Compeyson used against her.
		Miss Havisham’s creation is her downfall, and Pip is her mirror.
		When she sees the depth of Pip’s feelings for Estella, Miss Havisham sees herself with Compeyson and remembers what she once was.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-118,pageNum-78.html (347 words)

	Miss Donnithorne's Maggot (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Miss Donnithorne was an Australian lady, apparently one of the models for Miss Havisham in Dickens's Great Expectations; jilted at the last minute, she became a recluse, and Davies's piece discovers her ranting among the remnants of her wedding cake, which is decorated with instrumentalists.
		Ein beherzter Fußtritt hätte bei Miss Havisham möglicherweise Wunder gewirkt.
		Miss Donnithorne's Maggot was conceived at the party following the first performance in 1969 of Eight Songs for a Mad King.
	www.maxopus.com /works/donnitho.htm (4284 words)

	tales of CAKE & COBWEBS { a fanlisting for MISS HAVISHAM from GREAT EXPECTATIONS }
		Miss Havisham my not be the most believable character in the story.
		Eventually, Miss Havisham calls Pip, the protagonist of the story to the Satis House to entertain her.
		By the end of the story, Miss Havisham realizes that she caused Pip's hear to be broken, just the same way that hers was so many years ago.
	www.december-rain.org /havisham/about.php (480 words)

	Great Expectations (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An old, wealthy woman who has been in the same dress and has not stepped out of her house for years, Miss Havisham has sworn to take revenge on the whole male sex.
		Because her lover didn't show up at the wedding, she has remained in the same clothes, stopped all clocks, and left everything as it was when her heart was broken.
		Miss Havisham's words show how much hurt she endured from her ruined wedding.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0214760/havisham.html (105 words)

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