I was always fascinated by Miss Havisham & her unrequited love story.
How awful to wear your wedding dress everyday & live a life obsessed by requited love!
This is a live Miss Havisham, she walked around with a walking stick...not sure how old she is meant to be in the book!
The Chatsworth House tableau of Great Expectations was just wonderful, that impressive centre piece of the wedding cake but one vital piece missing, there was not one cobweb in sight!
Three good things:
1. The relief when you finally manage to peel off the backing on a Christmas parcel decorative sticky star!
2. I have written all the cards that need words in them!
3. Christmas tree delivered & it looks bushy & straight!
That scene when Pip? finds her in the cobwebby room is something I saw as a child in b/w and I can still see it now - how he rips down the curtains!! Seems strange to see it in colour but a great reconstruction.
Fabulous tableau. That very good adaptation with Gillian Anderson got a lot of stick because they said she was too young - but I think in the book she's not meant to be that old.
I don't really know the stories of Charles Dickens - or maybe I did at school and didn't listen. This lady does look real with her smile at you taking the picture!
@susiemc@maggiemae Yes this lady was real. She walked about but I couldn't tell her proper age but quite young I think. There were lots of staff dressed up as characters. I liked Great Expectations the best of Charles Dickens works.
@boxplayer well I thought she was about sixty when I read the book but thinking about it she must have been at least forty odd perhaps so younger than I thought but that's what you think as a child.
A beautiful tableau -- and look at that gorgeously set table - so precise and dainty and that tiered cake delicately balanced on the pillars -- simply wonderful . So much precision in comparison with todays Wedding Cakes !
Great photo. I think I saw the b/w version a long long time ago, and would think the the scene shown above should be a little darker, but that is a b/w memory. We all remember b/w TV, don't we???
I have always loved Charles Dickens novels, they are a view in the past and how people lived back then. Looks like a beautiful hall but a bit scary with the eccentric Miss Havisham looking like a ghost. Great shot.
Thank you all, sorry for communal reply but only just saw these comments tonight!
Yes Miss Havisham was always rather spooky to us kids, I think the age we read the book was probably a very impressionable she for us all.
She was indeed tormented @onewing & today's cakes are indeed so different @beryl I feel that the light should be darker here but wanted you to see all the detail even though no cobwebs!
Look forward to seeing the Chris tree on all it's fineary
I like your tree comment....me too😊
Thank you all, sorry for communal reply but only just saw these comments tonight!
Yes Miss Havisham was always rather spooky to us kids, I think the age we read the book was probably a very impressionable she for us all.
She was indeed tormented @onewing & today's cakes are indeed so different @beryl I feel that the light should be darker here but wanted you to see all the detail even though no cobwebs!