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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