![]() ![]() Thackeray published this story in monthly instalments of 3 or 4 chapters at a time, over almost 2 years from 1847- 1848, and is the novel that made him famous. The full plot is far too epic to detail here, and if you’re not familiar with the story it’s better to discover its twists and turns for yourself. The Battle of Waterloo intervenes and disrupts plans for the Sedley’s, the Osborne’s, Becky and the Crawley’s (a noble country family). Amelia, from a wealthy London family, has more simple ideals and wants nothing more than to marry Captain George Osborne, and pines for him day and night. Becky, an orphan whose father was an artist and mother was a showgirl, will do anything to attain wealth and propel herself into society. ![]() The story starts in 1812 and follows the next 20 years in the lives of Rebecca “Becky” Sharp and Amelia Sedley, who have just graduated from Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies. When you enter Vanity Fair, you enter a fictional world based on our own, where characters enter and leave like players on a stage, and where the niceties and ugliness of society is reflected back at us, whether we like it or not. ![]()
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