Crossword clues for estella
estella
- Ward of Miss Havisham
- Supermodel Warren
- Pip's spurner
- Pip's love, in literature
- Pip has a crush on her in "Great Expectations"
- Miss Havisham's adopted daughter in "Great Expectations"
- Heroine of "Great Expectations."
- Henry Aaron's mother
- Gwyneth's "Great Expectations" role
- "Great Expectations" lass
- "Great Expectations" adoptee
- 'Great Expectations' girl
- "Great Expectations" miss
- Dickens girl
- "Great Expectations" girl
- She was a pip to Pip in "Great Expectations"
- Miss Havisham's ward in "Great Expectations"
- Girl in "Great Expectations"
- "Great Expectations" woman
- Pip's ideal extracted from grapes? Tell agriculturist
- Pip's romantic interest in "Great Expectations"
- Pip's love in "Great Expectations"
- Heartless Dickens miss
- ''Great Expectations'' heroine
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, Spanish, literally "star," from Latin stella (see star (n.)).
Wikipedia
Estella is a feminine given name, a variant of Stella and Estelle.
Estella Havisham (best known in literature simply as Estella) is a significant character in the Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations.
Like the protagonist, Pip, Estella is introduced as an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady.
Usage examples of "estella".
Conyngham looked at Estella Vincente, his gay blue eyes meeting her dark glance with a frankness which was characteristic, and knew from that instant that his world held no other woman.
He walked with Estella in that quiet garden between high walls on the trim Moorish paths, and often the murmur of the running water which ever graced the Moslem palaces was the only sound that broke the silence.
Events seemed for him to have moved rapidly within the last few days, and the world of roadside inns and casual acquaintance into which he had stepped on his arrival in Spain was quite another from that in which Estella moved at Ronda.
He went away sorrowfully enough, only half consoled by the information that Estella was about to attend a service at the Church of Santa Maria, and could not have stayed longer in the garden.
Julia Barenna was darker than her cousin, quicker in manner, with an air of worldly capability which Estella lacked.
Conyngham, who was no diplomatist, nor possessed any skill in concealing his thoughts, looked with some interest at Julia Barenna, and Estella watched him.
Would anybody - would Estella - ever be thus agitated at the receipt of a letter from himself?
He thought of her - still as from a distance at which Estella had placed him - and knew that she not only had a disquieting beauty, but cleverness and courage, which are qualities that outlast beauty and make a woman powerful for ever.
He was anxious to get back to the garden of the great house in the Calle Mayor before the cool of evening came to drive Estella indoors.
Concha was brushing invisible grains of snuff from his cassock sleeve and watching Estella with anxious eyes.
He did not disguise the hesitation, which was apparent to both Estella and the Englishman.
General nodded and left Estella and Conyngham alone in the drawing-room.
For Estella Vincente had in her veins blood that was counted noble in Spain - the land of a bygone glory.
His bow to Estella clearly indicated that his business lay with Conyngham.
In the first place he wants this letter to show to Estella Vincente - some foolish romance.