This transformation is skilfully portrayed, showing Miss Havisham's evolution from a withdrawn, pitiful figure to someone briefly animated by wedding anticipation before descending into bitterness.

The film "Tales From Dickens: Miss Havisham" presents a narrative based on Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," focusing on the character of Miss Havisham through the perspective of a young boy ...

Pip meets Miss Havisham and falls in love with Estella Pip is taken to meet Miss Havisham, an eccentric lady who has shut herself away ever since her wedding was called off at the last minute.

And along the way, he meets the forever iconic Miss Havisham. Now, though, Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders fame is bringing us his very own interpretation of the classic tale to the BBC.

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.