Havisham Havisham "Havisham" is a poem written in 1993 by Carol Ann Duffy. It responds to Charles Dickens' character "Miss Havisham" from his novel "Great Expectations", looking at Havisham's mental and physical state many decades after being left standing at the altar, when the bride-to-be is in her old age. It expresses Havisham's anger at her fiancé and her bitter rage over wedding-day trauma and jilted abandonment. Duffy's use of language is very powerful and passionate. Throughout the poem oxymorons and juxtaposition such as ""Beloved sweetheart bastard"" and ""Love's hate"" portrays the ambivalence and restless uncertainty of the character, while a
Kim Dickens Cards". In film, she co-starred in "Footloose" (2011) and "At Any Price" (2012). In 2014, she had a major supporting role as Detective Rhonda Boney in the psychological thriller film "Gone Girl", directed by David Fincher, and in 2016, co-starred as the lead character's mother in Tim Burton's film "Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children". In 2015, Dickens began playing Madison Clark in "The Walking Dead" companion series, "Fear the Walking Dead". The series premiered on AMC on August 23, 2015. Kim Dickens Kimberly Jan Dickens (born June 18, 1965) is an American actress. Her film debut was a supporting