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
Great Expectations (2011 miniseries) Thomas a Beckett church, located in the deserted Kent village of Fairfield on the Romney Marsh. Scenes for the interior of the Gargery House/Forge were filmed at Luton Hoo Farm in Bedfordshire. In the UK the first part of the adaptation received the highest viewing figures in its time slot, gaining 6.6 million viewers. The casting of Gillian Anderson as the obsessive jilted bride Miss Havisham drew attention to the production due to her being a mere 43 compared to other actresses who have played her. The move was generally accepted with "The Independent" saying "Phelps's biggest liberty, making Miss