Estella (Great Expectations) (original) (raw)

Estella Havisham (best known in literature simply as Estella) is a significant character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. Like the protagonist, Pip, Estella is introduced as an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady.