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Crawley, but Becky very much regrets having done this; she had no idea that his father's wife would die so soon after. Sir Pitt's elder half sister, the spinster Miss Crawley, is very rich, having inherited her mother's fortune, and the whole Crawley family compete for her favour so she will bequeath them her wealth. Initially her favourite is Rawdon Crawley, but his marriage with Becky enrages her. First she favours the family of Sir Pitt's brother, but when she dies, she leaves her money to Sir Pitt's eldest son, also called Pitt.
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London - he is later an alderman and colonel of the City Light Horse regiment, and knighted) and the
Osbornes belong to the genteel class and have become independently wealthy. He defends George and is blind to his faults in many ways, although he tries to force George to do the right thing. He pushes George to keep his promise to marry Amelia even though Dobbin is in love with Amelia himself. After George is killed, Dobbin puts together an annuity to help support Amelia, ostensibly with the help of George's fellow officers.
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Sedley family until Mr. Sedley (the father of Jos and Amelia, and George
Osborne's godfather, from whom the latter takes his middle name of 'Sedley') goes bankrupt following some ill-advised speculation. Since George and Amelia were raised in close company and were childhood sweethearts, George defies his father to marry Amelia. Before father and son can be reconciled, George is killed at the battle of Waterloo, leaving the pregnant Amelia to carry on as well as she can.
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story's end she is portrayed as vacuous and shallow. Dobbin appears first as loyal and magnanimous, if unaware of his own worth; by the end of the story he is presented as a tragic fool, a prisoner of his own sense of duty who knows he is wasting his gifts on Amelia but is unable to live without her. The novel's increasingly grim outlook can take readers aback, as characters whom the reader at first holds in sympathy are shown to be unworthy of such regard.
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India or waiting on her in person, allowing her to take advantage of his good nature. After Amelia finally chooses Becky's friendship over his during their stay in
Germany, Dobbin leaves in disgust. He returns when Amelia writes to him and admits her feelings for him, marries her (despite having lost much of his passion for her), and has a daughter whom he loves deeply.
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Dobbin return. Dobbin professes his unchanged love to Amelia. Amelia is affectionate, but she cannot forget the memory of her dead husband. Dobbin mediates a reconciliation between Amelia and her father-in-law, who dies soon after. He had amended his will, bequeathing young George half his large fortune and Amelia a generous annuity.
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bank records and leaves her, expecting Steyne to challenge him to a duel. Instead Steyne arranges for Rawdon to be made
Governor of Coventry Island, a pestilential and disease-ridden location. Becky, having lost both husband and credibility, leaves England and wanders the continent, leaving her son in the care of Pitt and Lady Jane.
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in India. Obese and self-important but very shy and insecure, he is attracted to Becky Sharp but circumstances prevent him from proposing. He never marries, but when he meets Becky again he is easily manipulated into falling in love with her. Jos is not a courageous or intelligent man, displaying his
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with her parents, spending her life in memory of her husband and care of her son. Dobbin pays for a small annuity for Amelia and expresses his love for her by small kindnesses toward her and her son. She is too much in love with her husband's memory to return Dobbin's love. Saddened, he goes with his
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Miss Briggs, and her school friend Amelia; the latter is the recipient of more-or-less the only kindnesses Becky expresses in the work, persuading her to marry Dobbin in light of what Becky comes to appreciate to be his good qualities and protecting Amelia from two ruffians vying for her attentions.
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Amelia, called Emmy, is good-natured but passive and naïve. Pretty rather than beautiful, she has a snub nose and round, rosy cheeks. She is well-liked by men, and women when few men are around, as was the case when she was at school. She begins the work as its heroine ("selected for the very reason
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He returns home to find Becky singing to Steyne and strikes him down on the assumption—despite her protestations of innocence—that they are having an affair. Steyne is indignant, having assumed the £1000 he had just given Becky was part of an arrangement with her husband. Rawdon finds Becky's hidden
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has escaped from Elba, and as a result the stockmarket becomes jittery, causing Amelia's stockbroker father, John Sedley, to become bankrupt. George's rich father forbids George to marry Amelia, who is now poor. Dobbin persuades George to marry Amelia, and George is consequently disinherited. George
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first published in 1678. In that work, "Vanity Fair" refers to a stop along the pilgrim's route: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity, which represents man's sinful attachment to worldly things. Thackeray does not mention Bunyan in the novel or in his surviving letters about it, where he
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Becky Sharp says farewell to the Sedley family and enters the service of the crude and profligate baronet Sir Pitt Crawley, who has engaged her as a governess to his daughters. Her behaviour at Sir Pitt's house gains his favour, and after the premature death of his second wife, he proposes marriage
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which mask them. None of the characters is wholly evil, although Becky's manipulative, amoral tendencies make her come pretty close. However, even Becky, who is amoral and cunning, is thrown on her own resources by poverty and its stigma. (She is the orphaned daughter of a poor artist and an opera
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At the summit of their social success, Rawdon is arrested for debt, possibly at Becky's connivance. The financial success of the Crawleys had been a topic of gossip; in fact they were living on credit even when it ruined those who trusted them, such as their landlord, an old servant of the Crawley
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In London in 1814, Rebecca Sharp ("Becky"), daughter of an art teacher and a French dancer, is a strong-willed, cunning, moneyless young woman determined to make her way in society. After leaving school, Becky stays with her friend Amelia Sedley ("Emmy"), who is a good-natured, simple-minded young
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Although Rawdon knows Becky is attractive to men, he believes her reputation is spotless even though she is widely suspected of romantic intrigue with General Tufto and other powerful men. Nobody dares to suggest otherwise to Rawdon because of his temper and his reputation for duelling. Yet other
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The best friend of George Osborne, Captain William Dobbin is tall, ungainly, and not particularly handsome. He is a few years older than George but has been friends with him since his schooldays, even though Dobbin's father is a fig-merchant (Dobbin & Rudge, grocers and oilmen, Thames Street,
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Marrying Rawdon Crawley in secret was a mistake, as was running off instead of begging Miss Crawley's forgiveness. She also fails to manipulate Miss Crawley through Rawdon so as to obtain an inheritance. Although Becky manipulates men very easily, she is less successful with women. She is utterly
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was effusive regarding his illustrations as well: "You will not easily find a second Thackeray. How he can render, with a few black lines and dots, shades of expression, so fine, so real; traits of character so minute, so subtle, so difficult to seize and fix, I cannot tell—I can only wonder and
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Rawdon Crawley's elder brother inherits the Crawley estate from his father, the boorish and vulgar Sir Pitt, and also inherits the estate of his wealthy aunt, Miss Crawley, after she disinherits Rawdon. Pitt is very religious and has political aspirations, although not many people appreciate his
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Becky also gives birth to a son, named Rawdon after his father. Becky is a cold, distant mother, although Rawdon loves his son. Becky continues her ascent first in post-war Paris and then in London where she is patronised by the rich and powerful Marquis of Steyne. She is eventually presented at
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As Amelia's adored son George grows up, his grandfather Mr Osborne relents towards him (though not towards Amelia) and takes him from his impoverished mother, who knows the rich old man will give him a better start in life than she could manage. After twelve years abroad, both Joseph Sedley and
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remarked, "Thackeray liked people, and for the most part he thought them well-intentioned. But he also saw very clearly that they were all in some degree weak and vain, self-absorbed and self-deceived." Amelia begins as a warm-hearted and friendly girl, though sentimental and naive, but by the
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George is embarrassed by the vulgarity of Mrs. Major O'Dowd, the wife of the head of the regiment. The newly wedded Osborne is already growing tired of Amelia, and he becomes increasingly attracted to Becky, which makes Amelia jealous and unhappy. He is also losing money to Rawdon at cards and
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Raised to be a selfish, vain, profligate spender, handsome and self-obsessed, George squanders the last of the money he receives from his father and sets nothing aside to help support Amelia. After marrying Amelia, he finds after a couple of weeks that he is bored. He flirts with Becky quite
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people, particularly the Marquis of Steyne, find it impossible to believe that Crawley is unaware of Becky's tricks. Steyne in particular believes Rawdon is fully aware Becky is prostituting herself, and believes Rawdon is going along with the charade in the hope of financial gain.
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that she was the best-natured of all") and marries the dashing George Osborne against his father's wishes, but the narrator is soon forced to admit "she wasn't a heroine" after all as she remains soppily devoted to him despite his neglect of her and his flirtation with Becky.
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family. The Marquis of Steyne had given Becky money, jewels, and other gifts but Becky does not use them for expenses or to free her husband. Instead, Rawdon's letter to his brother is received by Lady Jane, who pays the £170 that prompted his imprisonment.
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engaged, engaged in the pursuit of Vanity Fair and I must carry my story through in this dreary minor key, with only occasional hints here and there of better things—of better things which it does not become me to preach".
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are tableaux that insinuate visually what the narrator is unwilling to articulate: that Becky... has actually been substantially rewarded – by society – for her crimes." One of the Thackeray's plates for the 11th issue of
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cowardice at the Battle of Waterloo by trying to flee and purchasing both of Becky's overpriced horses. Becky ensnares him again near the end of the book and, it is hinted, murders him for his life insurance.
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billiards. At a ball in Brussels, George gives Becky a note inviting her to run away with him (although this fact is not revealed until the end of the book). But then the army have marching orders to the
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Taylor, D.J. (2004). "Jane Octavia Brookfield (1821–1896)".
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personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay
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3955:, vol. I & II, New York: Haskell House Publishers
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1374:, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013,
1253:Tillotson, Geoffrey; et al., eds. (1963),
4549:Works originally published in Punch (magazine)
2416:. University of California Press. p. 17.
2247:The "Becky doll" constructs her house of cards
1192:Ritchie, Anne Isabella Thackeray, ed. (1898),
1024:Becky's second appearance in the character of
846:Becky's second appearance in the character of
400:article likely written by Thackeray himself.
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1186:, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1893
293:20) from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle
4559:British novels adapted into television shows
3639:"Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray"
3605:. Old Time Radio Downloads. 6 December 1947.
3067:(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
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833:The title page of the 1848 first edition of
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1194:The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray,
1015:Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society
296:Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society
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3922:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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1152:, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1883
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338:audio, film, and television adaptations
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4529:Novels set during the Napoleonic Wars
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3890:, Cambridge: Harvard University Press
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1120:, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853
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340:. It also inspired the title of the
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3181:Tillotson & al., cited in York.
3151:Tillotson & al., cited in York.
1371:Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
1345:, reprinted 2003, 2004, & 2008.
1331:Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
1279:, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1276:Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
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1174:, George Routledge & Sons, 1891
1172:Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
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1002:had given him up when called to by
835:Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
352:poll of the UK's best-loved books.
348:was listed at No. 122 on the BBC's
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4564:Works about the Battle of Waterloo
3514:McAloon, Jonathan (20 June 2015),
2583:Dictionary of National Biography,
1934:(1915), directed by Charles Brabin
1456:, after various portraits both on
1309:Shillingsburg, Peter, ed. (1994),
1225:, New York: P.F. Collier & Son
1036:"The final three illustrations of
502:regiment to India for many years.
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2588:, London: Smith, Elder, & Co.
2377:, London: BBC Books, p. 14,
1343:, Oxford: Oxford University Press
1313:, New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
1200:, London: Smith, Elder, & Co.
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915:No. 12 (December 1847) Ch. 39–42
912:No. 11 (November 1847) Ch. 36–38
906:No. 9 (September 1847) Ch. 30–32
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493:George Osborne is killed at the
313:his era's conventions regarding
4569:Cultural depictions of Napoleon
4334:Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
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1013:The serials had been subtitled
972:2000, a third of his take from
968:had only given Thackeray about
936:No. 19/20 (July 1848) Ch. 64–67
918:No. 13 (January 1848) Ch. 43–46
909:No. 10 (October 1847) Ch. 33–35
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1273:Sutherland, John, ed. (1983),
289:(the last containing Parts 19
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1263:Page, Josephine, ed. (1964),
956:the novels bore the subtitle
927:No. 16 (April 1848) Ch. 54–56
924:No. 15 (March 1848) Ch. 51–53
903:No. 8 (August 1847) Ch. 26–29
885:No. 2 (February 1847) Ch. 5–7
821:serial, advertising it under
560:
430:by its preface and coda as a
277:, which follows the lives of
3961:York, Kenneth Galen (1997),
3944:UK public library membership
3883:Ray, Gordon N., ed. (1946),
3214:, "Carlyle & Carlylism".
3081:UK public library membership
2354:
2062:, for which she received an
1218:Doyle, Richard, ed. (1902),
1205:Gwynn, Stephen, ed. (1899),
933:No. 18 (June 1848) Ch. 61–63
891:No. 4 (April 1847) Ch. 12–14
882:No. 1 (January 1847) Ch. 1–4
376:The book's title comes from
182:xvi,624 (1848 first edition)
7:
4377:William Makepeace Thackeray
4150:The History of Henry Esmond
4071:William Makepeace Thackeray
4022:public domain audiobook at
3661:"BBC Radio 4 - Vanity Fair"
1526:
1323:, Harlow: Pearson Education
930:No. 17 (May 1848) Ch. 57–60
900:No. 7 (July 1847) Ch. 23–25
897:No. 6 (June 1847) Ch. 19–22
888:No. 3 (March 1847) Ch. 8–11
823:William Makepeace Thackeray
275:William Makepeace Thackeray
74:William Makepeace Thackeray
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3590:. Oxford University Press.
3489:Thackeray: Prodigal Genius
3125:Tillotson & al. (1963)
3097:Macguire, Matthew (2000),
2481:"The Title of Vanity Fair"
2217:
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2012:, as Lady Jane Sheepshanks
1734:whose Becky Sharp was the
1339:Mowat, Diane, ed. (2002),
1294:Zhang, Xinci, ed. (1992),
1109:, Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1848
894:No. 5 (May 1847) Ch. 15–18
634:
342:British lifestyle magazine
299:, which reflects both its
155:January 1847 to July 1848
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3804:Harden, Edgar F. (1995),
3468:Early Victorian Novelists
2327:Examples include Carey's
2278:French: "...is the rest."
2226:(2023), novel written by
1489:Contemporaneous reception
1329:Carey, John, ed. (2001),
1300:, Tainan: Daxia Chubanshe
608:After George dies in the
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4182:The Adventures of Philip
4102:The Luck of Barry Lyndon
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2201:(2017), play written by
2192:(1946), play written by
2181:(1899), play written by
1779:
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157:(serialised in 20 parts)
4584:Novels set in the 1830s
4579:Novels set in the 1820s
4574:Novels set in the 1810s
3974:, University of Montana
3470:, Constable, p. 69
3402:review of 10 July 1848.
3381:Wilson & al. (1970)
3365:Wilson & al. (1970)
3196:Wilson & al. (1970)
2923:Wilson & al. (1970)
2579:Robert Bell (1800–1867)
1816:(6 December 1947), the
1410:Reception and criticism
1389:Hui, Tang, ed. (2014),
1122:, without illustration.
998:– the boy whose mother
617:Jane Octavia Brookfield
4589:Novels set in Brighton
4204:television adaptations
4094:A Shabby Genteel Story
3936:10.1093/ref:odnb/56277
3862:Milne, Kirsty (2015),
3691:Yarmarka tshcheslaviya
3073:10.1093/ref:odnb/27155
2465:The Pilgrim's Progress
2248:
2080:Yarmarka tshcheslaviya
2070:television as part of
2050:miniseries adapted by
1906:as George Osborne and
1788:(7 January 1940), the
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1595:A Novel without a Hero
1557:by rewriting it in an
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1209:Vols. I, II, & III
1129:Vols. I, II, & III
1106:Vols. I, II, & III
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4166:The Rose and the Ring
3905:, Pearson Education,
3823:Heiler, Lars (2010),
3315:"Suppressed Plates",
2400:, "Domestic Fiction".
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2156:adaptation, starring
2148:(2018), a seven-part
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465:Chapter 32 ends with
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408:Kensal Green Cemetery
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4594:Novels set in London
3748:"Becky by Sarah May"
3627:on 30 November 2021.
3127:, pp. xvii ff..
2133:miniseries starring
2101:miniseries starring
1996:(2004), directed by
1950:(1923), directed by
1923:(1911), directed by
1704:Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1617:, and the scheming,
1073:adding missing items
776:Miss Matilda Crawley
700:to Miss Pinkerton's
600:Emmy Sedley (Amelia)
591:Mr. Joseph Entangled
4519:1848 British novels
4110:Mrs. Perkins's Ball
3525:The Daily Telegraph
2073:Masterpiece Theatre
2004:as Becky Sharp and
1902:as Rawdon Crawley,
1643:omniscient narrator
1363:, Oxford: Macmillan
1257:, Boston: Riverside
1188:, in four editions.
1051:Marquis of Hertford
1033:or another poison.
863:was published as a
805:Publication history
621:y est pour beaucoup
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2575:Espinasse, Francis
2438:"BBC The Big Read"
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2212:Bernard J. Taylor
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1888:Vanity Fair
1860:as Amelia,
1854:Stephen Fry
1848:, starring
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1838:Vanity Fair
1814:Vanity Fair
1804:Helen Hayes
1786:Vanity Fair
1771:Vanity Fair
1756:Vanity Fair
1727:Vanity Fair
1711:Adaptations
1681:consumerism
1635:opportunism
1476:Becky as a
1438:domino mask
1436:Becky in a
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1351:Vanity Fair
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637:Becky Sharp
432:puppet show
416:Vanity Fair
404:Robert Bell
378:John Bunyan
366:John Bunyan
346:Vanity Fair
326:puppet play
279:Becky Sharp
270:Vanity Fair
256:Vanity Fair
123:; 1814–1832
105:Set in
71:Illustrator
4513:Categories
4455:Television
4390:Characters
4336:(daughter)
3946:required.)
3429:, p.
3412:Ray (1946)
3383:, p.
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2509:30 October
2448:31 October
2234:References
2129:(1998), a
2121:as Dobbin.
2097:(1987), a
2064:Emmy Award
2052:Rex Tucker
2046:(1967), a
2017:Television
1910:as Dobbin.
1870:Jon Glover
1866:Philip Fox
1852:as Becky,
1721:lobby card
1603:melancholy
1567:April 2022
1440:, playing
1069:incomplete
815:prospectus
561:Characters
444:unreliable
334:unreliable
261:Wikisource
220:PR5618 .A1
4498:1946 play
4134:Pendennis
4086:Catherine
3797:163517862
3493:. Faber.
3399:The Times
2577:(1885), "
2487:2 October
2355:Citations
2228:Sarah May
2054:starring
2035:starring
1998:Mira Nair
1970:Myrna Loy
1896:Al Murray
1818:NBC Radio
1790:CBS Radio
1750:Myrna Loy
1732:lost film
1707:actions.
1623:hypocrisy
1463:St Helena
1452:Becky as
1420:Becky as
1212:, Methuen
992:Iphigenia
962:royalties
813:The 1847
798:collector
684:retelling
664:companion
625:Iphigenia
520:Philomela
440:Hyde Park
388:Dissenter
128:Publisher
121:Rhineland
43:Thackeray
4202:Film and
4024:LibriVox
3899:(1988),
3732:13 March
3586:(1996).
3485:(1977).
3466:(1934),
3325:citation
2371:(2011),
1890:(2019),
1840:(2004),
1736:director
1723:for the
1615:snobbery
1611:idleness
1527:Analysis
1454:Napoleon
1442:roulette
1426:Odysseus
1031:laudanum
988:Jephthah
984:Biblical
817:for the
676:Eriphyle
593:by Becky
475:Napoleon
467:Waterloo
391:allegory
195:18798256
79:Language
4462:1956–57
4327:Related
3887:Vol. II
3013:110–111
2585:Vol. IV
2347:itself.
2305:bills."
2269:gossip.
2218:Fiction
2173:Theatre
1820:series
1792:series
1677:Marxist
1659:Tolstoy
1628:realism
1553:Please
1478:mermaid
1196:Vol. I:
1020:mermaid
1006:– with
986:figure
702:Minerva
698:Arachne
694:doubles
551:Germany
109:England
82:English
4442:(1935)
4319:(2018)
4311:(2004)
4303:(1998)
4295:(1987)
4287:(1986)
4279:(1975)
4271:(1967)
4263:(1935)
4255:(1932)
4247:(1923)
4239:(1922)
4231:(1920)
4223:(1915)
4215:(1911)
4153:(1852)
4145:(1852)
4113:(1846)
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