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Vanity Fair's dull Becky Sharp. - Slate Magazine

a Becky Sharp, the near-demonic schemer of William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, turned into a martyred ingénue—a gifted young woman driven to ...

Becky Sharp - Wikipedia

Rebecca "Becky" Sharp, later describing herself as Rebecca, Lady Crawley, is the main protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847–48 novel Vanity Fair ...

Vanity Fair: Character List - SparkNotes

Rebecca “Becky” Sharp. The protagonist of the novel and Rawdon Crawley's wife ... Pitt is serious, pious, and dull. While he initially disapproves of ...

Becky Sharp Character Analysis in Vanity Fair - LitCharts

That period of Jos's life which now ensued was so full of incident, that it served him for conversation for many years after, and even the tiger-hunt story was ...

Vanity Fair: Becky Sharp | SparkNotes

Rebecca “Becky” Sharp is the quintessential social climber. Clever, charming, and beautiful, Becky early on realizes that the key to a life of ease and ...

At the Hands of Becky Sharp: (In)Visible Manipulation and Vanity Fair

'You've got more brains in your little vinger than any baronet's wife in the county.' -Sir Pitt Crawley to Becky Sharp, Vanity Fair (152). Victorian sartorial ...

I just read Vanity Fair and… : r/books - Reddit

... dull movie. It's a primer on how to ... I just finished reading 'The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp which is a simpler, modern retelling.

In Defense of Becky Sharp - White Rose of Avalon

Becky Sharp is the protagonist of the novel Vanity Fair, and she is often also seen as the villain of that self-same novel.

'Vanity Fair' Is a Misanthropic Holiday Treat - The Atlantic

The Amazon adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's social satire comments on the unchanging nature of grift. ... If Becky Sharp were alive in ...

1899 VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray, Becky Sharp ...

... Thackeray. 1899; Harper & Brothers; New York. Gilt top page edges. See full description. Have one to sell? Sell now. Shipping, returns, and payments.

False conceit: why is Vanity Fair's scheming heroine misread on ...

In William Makepeace Thackeray's novel she's an amoral social climber – yet in adaptions Becky Sharp is warm and relatable.

Vanity Fair (novel) - Wikipedia

Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and ...

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - Naomi Clifford

... Becky Sharp, did not particularly impress me. For a start, Olivia Cooke was too beautiful. In my imagination, like many attractive people ...

“Vanity Fair” by William Makepeace Thackeray | Review of the Novel

For example, the book's two leading female characters, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley. Becky Sharp is a classic “bad girl” – bohemian parents ...

BECKY SHARP | Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival

Becky Sharp, the protagonist of Thackeray's Vanity Fair, is a golden-haired ... Shooting began with actor and (rather dull) part-time director Lowell Sherman ...

William Thackeray, VANITY FAIR, Becky Sharp Edition, First Ed ...

New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Bound in a tan Buckram Cloth with Black and Red lettering and decorations. See full description ...

What Male Critics Got So Wrong About Vanity Fair Movie - Refinery29

In 2004, Reese Witherspoon played Becky Sharp in Mira Nair's adaptation of the classic novel, "Vanity Fair." Critics dismissed it.

Vanity Fair (TV Mini Series 1998) - IMDb

An adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic story of parvenue Becky Sharp's rise from obscure and humble origins to her subsequent ignominious fall ...

The Creation of Becky Sharp in "Vanity Fair" - jstor

If so, a full accounting of. Becky's sources may be impossible to achieve. Nevertheless, even a partial account will illuminate Thackeray's methods. Scholars ...

Thoughts on Vanity Fair? : r/literature - Reddit

And Becky Sharp is one of the best characters in literature. She's completely self-serving -- and the best parts of the book all involve her.