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1	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/CharlesDickens named this as one of his own favourite novels.
2	* DawsonCasting:
3	** The 1974 film has thirty-three-year-old Creator/SarahMiles as Estella, who's a teenager in her first appearance.
4	** The 1989 miniseries also has the same actress (Kim Thomson, who was in her late twenties at the time) play Estella throughout, including as a teenager.
5	* DeletedScene: Modern printings of the novel usually include the original ending as an appendix.
6	* MissingEpisode:
7	** The 1917 film is lost.
8	** One episode of the 1959 miniseries is lost.
9	* MoneyDearBoy: The novel was only written because Dickens's magazine ''All the Year Round'' was doing poorly and the only thing that would revive it was a serialized Dickens novel.
10	* RemakeCameo: Jean Simmons, who played Estella in the 1946 film, went on to play Miss Havisham in the 1989 miniseries.
11	* RoleReprise:
12	** Francis L. Sullivan played Mr. Jaggers in both the 1934 and 1946 films.
13	** Alec Guinness and Martita Hunt played Herbert Pocket and Miss Havisham in both the 1939 stage version and the 1946 film.
14	* SettingUpdate:
15	** ''An Orphan's Tragedy'' (1955) changes the setting from Victorian England to 1950s Hong Kong.
16	** ''Fitoor'' (2016) changes the setting to India.
17	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original ending has Pip, who is still single, briefly see Estella in London; after becoming Bentley Drummle's widow, she has remarried. This was changed following comments by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that the ending was too sad.
18	* WriteWhoYouKnow:
19	** It is documented that Creator/CharlesDickens encountered a wealthy recluse called Elizabeth Parker on whom it is widely believed he based the character, whilst staying in Newport, Shropshire, at the aptly named Havisham Court.
20	** It has been suggested that the icy teasing of the character Estella is based on Ellen Ternan's reluctance to become Dickens' mistress.
21	** It is believed that Dickens revised Herbert Pocket's appearance to resemble his son Charley.

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