Which Victorian novel features an orphan named Pip?
Answer
Great Expectations
Answer
Great Expectations
The Victorian novel featuring an orphan named Pip is Charles Dickens's 'Great Expectations'. Pip, whose full name is Philip Pirrip, is both the protagonist and the narrator.
The story begins when seven-year-old Pip visits his family's graves in the Kent marshes and encounters an escaped convict. He is raised by his severe older sister and her kind husband, Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. Pip later visits the eccentric Miss Havisham and meets Estella, experiences that awaken his desire to become a gentleman.
Pip's social rise is funded by an anonymous benefactor, and he initially assumes Miss Havisham is responsible. The eventual revelation that the money comes from Abel Magwitch, the convict from his childhood, forces Pip to reconsider his ideas about class, respectability and gratitude.
The other options are also Dickens novels, which makes this question a common mix-up. 'Oliver Twist', 'David Copperfield' and 'Nicholas Nickleby' each have different protagonists; only 'Great Expectations' centres on Pip.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026