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Which Charles Dickens novel features the character Miss Havisham, a wealthy recluse who stopped all the clocks on her wedding day?
Answer
Great Expectations
Great Expectations (1861) centers on the orphan Pip and includes Miss Havisham, who was jilted at the altar and froze her life at that moment — wearing her wedding dress and leaving the decaying wedding cake on the table for decades.
💡 Did you know?
Dickens originally wrote a different, unhappy ending for Great Expectations, but rewrote it after a friend argued readers would prefer a more hopeful conclusion.
Other options people guess
- Bleak House
- Our Mutual Friend
- Dombey and Son
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- victorian
- british-literature
- 19th-century
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