Title: Havisham
Description: There was a delicate tracery of gold foil on the back of the dress. How strange that such a consummately made garment should be worn for this one day only. But, as every girl growing up understood, her wedding day was the most significant she would know: a woman's crowning glory. Catherine Havisham was born into privilege.
Subjects: Social conditions, Man-woman relationships, Fiction, Fiction, historical, England, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Rich people, Breweries, Social classes, Psychic trauma, Young women, Family-owned business enterprises
Places: England
Time periods: 19th century