Five great literary monomaniacs

At the Guardian, Charlotte Seager tagged five well-known literary obsessives who take things too far, including:Miss Havisham in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Another character glued to her past: Miss Havisham is consumed by despair at being jilted as a young woman, and harbours a lifelong fixation with a traumatic wedding day that never was. Her ghostly appearance is so odd that it