Dickensian (TV series) window in "Scrooge", the most famous and acclaimed film-adaptation of "A Christmas Carol". Episode 19: The picture Bumble hangs in the workhouse is of Josiah Bounderby, one of the major characters in "Hard Times". One of the school trustees is Mrs Tisher, a character from "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". Amelia Havisham gazes at her wedding dress in the mirror—the same dress she will remain in throughout "Great Expectations", in a mad, obsessive reminder of Compeyson's betrayal of her; one day, the dress catches fire, Miss Havisham suffers severe burns, and she dies some weeks later. Episode 20: In an
Havisham poem. "Havisham" Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then I haven't wished him dead, Prayed for it so hard I've dark green pebbles for eyes, ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with. Spinster. I stink and remember. Whole days in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe; the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this to me? Puce curses that are sounds not words. Some nights better, the lost body over me, my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear then down till I suddenly