I looked into the room where I had left her, and I saw her seated in the ragged chair upon the hearth close to the fire, with her back towards me. In the moment when I was withdrawing my head to go quietly away, I saw a great flaming light spring up. In the same moment I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her, and soaring at least as many feet above her head as she was high.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 49. Events take a dramatic turn in this chapter, when Pip witnesses a horrific scene involving Miss Havisham. Her wedding dress catches fire from her fireplace and she is consumed by a ball of flame.