Portrayals Of Miss Havisham (Great Expectations)

In the book Great Expectations:
In the book Pip describes Miss Havisham as "the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see." He then goes on to say "She was dressed in rich materials - satins, and lace, and silks - all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands, and some other jewels laid sparkling on the table." 

Pip then explains that everything that ought to be white, actually had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow; he quotes "I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes." Furthermore, Pip compares Miss Havisham to a 'ghastly waxwork' and a 'skeleton' and explains how he is able to tell that she was once a curvaceous women but has now shrunk to skin and bones. 

Book reference: 
Dickens et al, 1992. Great Expectations, pp.48-49

In the 1981 TV series Great Expectations:
In this series, Miss Havisham is played by Joan Hickson. 

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In the 2011 TV series Great Expectations:

In this series, Miss Havisham is played by Gillian Anderson. The American actress cuts a ghostly figure as the jilted bride in the Charles Dickens classic, although, Anderson's casting as Miss Havisham drew attention to the production due to her being a mere 43 compared to other actresses who have played her.

Website reference: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2064629/GREAT-Expectations-Gillian-Anderson-leads-star-cast-BBCs-festive-adaptation-Charles-Dickens-classic.html

In the 1998 Film Great Expectations:
This tale is slightly different and has almost been rewritten, but it has been borrowed from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, where it is told in less lurid images and language, to be sure, but with the same sense of an innocent boy being lured into the lair of two and dangerous women. That the women are lonely, sad and good at heart makes it bittersweet. The story has been updated by director Alfonso Cuarón, who moves it from Victorian England to a crumbling neo-Gothic mansion in Florida.

In this film, the original character Miss Havisham, is now actually called Ms Dinsmore and is played by Anne Bancroft.

In this version of "Great Expectations", it spares us the sight of Miss Havisham's wedding cake, covered in cobwebs after the decades, but it succeeds in making Ms. Dinsmore equally sad and venomous. Anne Bancroft's performance is interesting; despite the much more dramatic eye makeup and the cigarettes and the flamboyant clothing, she is human, and not without humor. "That's the biggest cat I've ever seen," Finn (originally Pip) says on his first visit, "What do you feed it?". She waits for a beat, "Other cats," she says.

Website reference:
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-expectations-1998

I find it very interesting to compare the different actresses used, the different styling options chosen and the general diverse portrayals of Miss Havisham in different productions of the book, and compared to the actual book itself.