ELIZA DONNITHORNE – THE AUSTRALIAN MISS HAVISHAM?

ELIZA DONNITHORNE - THE AUSTRALIAN MISS HAVISHAM?

Did Sydney’s Eliza Donnithorne inspire Charles Dickens? When Pip meets the jilted Miss Havisham in the novel Great Expectations she is dressed in her decaying wedding attire, presenting a terrifying blend of waxwork figure and living skeleton. There is a theory that Charles  Dickens based this character

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THE FLYING PIEMAN OF SYDNEY

THE FLYING PIEMAN OF SYDNEY

UPDATE – THURSDAY, MARCH 9 2023; THE PIEMAN’S GRAND JETE! Just imagine the Flying Pieman (William Francis King) as the ‘star’ of a ballet. This almost came to be. In 1942 artist Roderick Shaw prepared 21 watercolours for a proposed ballet to be called; ”The Flying Pieman

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