From: David Parker (cdickens@RMPLC.CO.UK)
Date: Thu Jan 21 1999 - 01:58:49 PST
My dear Mr Weller,
"Great Expectations" is fiction. In writing it, I decided it best suited the understanding of Miss Havisham, and of her effect on those around her, that her Christian name be unknown. I therefore gave her none. I could invent one now if I chose, but it would have little to do with the novel I finished so many years ago. Nor would it be better or truer than one you invent yourself. Feel free to do that, if your imagination is in need of such a name.
Faithfully yours,
Charles Dickens
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From: Jay Weller <welljay@email.msn.com>
To: cdickens@rmplc.co.uk <cdickens@rmplc.co.uk>
Date: 20 January 1999 22:05
Subject: A Question to Charles Dickens
What is Miss Havisham's (from Great Expectations) first name?