7/4/2023 0 Comments Havisham by Ronald Frame![]() ![]() So when a charming and charismatic stranger shows an interest in her, she immediately falls for his antics. When she reached a suitable age, he sent her to live with the Chadwycks, an old money family where he hopes their sophistication will rub off on her and perhaps she will find a match with their oldest son, William Chadwyck.Ĭatherine was always a little too proud and a little to naive for her own good. ![]() Her father also knows this and knows that if she was ever going to make it in society and find a suitable husband, she would need some training. She knows she comes from privilege and the ‘rules’ are different for girls like her. She is always aware that the Havisham names means something in her town. Her father did rather well with this brewery and provided some finery for his daughter. In Ronald Frame’s novel, Havisham, we get a chance to see what Catherine Havisham’s life was like before she became the haunting figure we know so well.Ĭatherine Havisham was from ‘new money’. Whatever it is about Miss Havisham, she haunts not only the novel but our memory long after reading Great Expectations.ĭo you find yourself wondering what her life might have been like prior to being jilted at the alter? What might her back story have been? I know I thought about this the entire time I was reading Great Expectations. ![]() What is it about Catherine Havisham that you remember the most from the classic Great Expectations? Is it all the clocks stuck on a specific time? The old decaying wedding dress? ![]()
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