In a tragic accident, Miss Havisham is horribly burned when her wedding dress catches fire and she dies shortly ... which was of old brick and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it.

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We met the older Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. In the novel she is an elderly woman who insisted on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life after being jilted at the altar.

Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella.