Havisham

You may be looking for Miss Haversham.

Miss Havisham was a character from Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations. She was described as both "bitter" and "decaying". (TV: The Empty Planet)

During the novel, Miss Havisham, and her ward Estella, met with Pip - the orphaned protagonist - in one of a series of events which would change his life forever. (TV: The Empty Planet)

Martha encountered her in a world of fiction created by Ch'otterai. (PROSE: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage)

Bernice Summerfield said that she had no desire to be "turned into Miss Havisham" by the Time Soldiers; i.e., being rapidly aged by them. (PROSE: The Dimension Riders)

In the novel, she left unfinished food on the table and allowed her house to go into decay. Tanya Adeola recalled this when she broke into the conservatory of the old stone house. (PROSE: The Stone House)