Could deserted bride, Eliza Donnithorne, be the role model for Charles Dickens' Miss Havisham from Great Expectations? Five years before Miss Havisham was created, Eliza, a Sydney woman, became a recluse after she was left at the alter; the wedding feast was left to rot and the clocks were stopped.
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