27/03/2008

Byron, Shelley and Miss Havisham

Of Charles Dickens’s many archetypal creations perhaps none has exercised a more persistent fascination than Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. She has become, in Angus Calder’s memorable formulation, “as much part of the permanent furniture of the public and private rooms of the Western mind as Ulysses and Sinbad”.
Much discussion has arisen over Miss Havisham’s [...]