Satis House Estella Havisham, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter, discusses the name with Pip, the protagonist: Pip's description notes the iron bars in the windows of the house, including some detail on a boarded-up window. There is also a large brewery on the side of the house connected to the house by lanes and an open wooden gate. Satis house is now currently owned by King's School, Rochester as their admin offices Satis House Satis House is a fictional estate in the Charles Dickens novel "Great Expectations. The name "Satis House" comes from the Latin "" for 'enough', and is the name of
John Dickens John Dickens John Dickens (21 August 1785 – 31 March 1851) was the father of English novelist Charles Dickens and was the model for Mr Micawber in his son's semi-autobiographical novel "David Copperfield". The son of William Dickens (1719–1785) and Elizabeth Ball (1745–1824), John Dickens was a clerk in the Royal Navy Pay Office at Portsmouth in Hampshire. On 13 June 1809 at St Mary le Strand, London, he married Elizabeth Barrow, with whom he had eight children. He was later transferred to London and then to Chatham, returning to live in Camden Town in London in 1822 to work