Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations Is an Early Exploration of “Romantic Fraud”
Hull, Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel “Great Expectations,” who shrank into a yellowing wedding dress from the decay of her wedding breakfast, is one of the most famous characters in English literature. Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations Is an Early Exploration of “Romantic Fraud” Havisham was abandoned by her unscrupulous fiancé on her wedding … Read more