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“All got really plastered after that. Was completely fantastic evening. As Tom said, if Miss Havisham had had some jolly flatmates to take the…

— Helen Fielding

Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and…

— Laura Mullen

“Oh, and you should know . . . if you keep calling me harlot, sooner or later I’m going to have a rage blackout,…

— Kresley Cole

“LADY BRACKNELL I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now. ALGERNON I hear her…

— Oscar Wilde

“Then says Mrs. Hauksbee to me – she looked a trifle faded and jaded in the lamplight: “Take my word for it, the silliest…

— Rudyard Kipling

“The long, curled hair, the dark head bent so reverently, so innocently before her, implied a pair of the finest legs that a young…

— Virginia Woolf

“She descended, not through the nearest hole as was her childhood habit, but more sedately down a marble staircase that began life in the…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“It was as if Tutankhamen or Miss Havisham had wandered into the pub one night and started bitching about the head on the pints.”

— Tana French

“...fortune was a fickle mistress.”

— Lorraine Heath

“It was a strange room, the door hanging off its hinges, and yet a telephone. But its last occupant was a harlot, long past…

— Samuel Beckett

“People, her people at least, were always chasing shattered hopes. A father gazing down on dead soil, with a brood of hollow-cheeked children sitting…

— A Cruel Harvest

“Dear. Lord. Fortune has well and truly vomited down my front in the form of Mr. Lockwood. As”

— Mackenzi Lee