Great Expectations gentleman. Pip is to leave for London, but presuming that Miss Havisham is his benefactor, he first visits her. Pip sets up house in London at Barnard's Inn with Herbert Pocket, the son of his tutor, Matthew Pocket, who is a cousin of Miss Havisham. Herbert and Pip have previously met at Satis Hall, where Herbert was rejected as a playmate for Estella. He tells Pip how Miss Havisham was defrauded and deserted by her fiancé. Pip meets fellow pupils, Bentley Drummle, a brute of a man from a wealthy noble family, and Startop, who is agreeable. Jaggers disburses the
Gerald Charles Dickens (actor) the Music Box Theatre in Minneapolis he played Charles Dickens in Jeffrey Hatcher's one-hander "To Begin With", which was adapted from Dickens' "The Life of Our Lord". He played the role again in a 2017 revival. In 2004, Dickens won the British TV show "The Weakest Link" during its 8th season in an episode where the contestants all had famous ancestors. Gerald Dickens lived in Goudhurst, Kent with his former wife Lucy Marsh, with whom he had a son, Cameron. He married his long-term partner Liz Hayes, a pianist who sometimes accompanies his performances, on 10 August 2015. They live