"Becky Sharp (film) Becky Sharp is a 1935 American historical drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins who was nominated for the Best Actress oscar. Other supporting cast were William Faversham, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, and Alan Mowbray. The film is based on the play of the same name by Langdon Mitchell, which in turn is based on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel ""Vanity Fair"". The play was made famous in the late 1890s by actress Minnie Maddern Fiske. The screenplay was written by Francis Edward Faragoh. The film was considered a"
"Thackeray's ""Vanity Fair (1847),"" Becky Sharp, exceptionally gifted with mimicry, is looked upon with much suspicion. Her talents of mimesis lend themselves to ""a calculated deceptiveness"" and ""systematic concealment of her true intentions"" that is unbecoming of any British woman. An editorial in ""The Era"", quoted a contemporary writer outlining the history of the divergence of Church and Stage following the Middle Ages, and arguing that the conflict was unnecessary: In the second half of the 19th century, Evangelical Christians established many societies for the relief of poverty. Some were created to help working women, particularly those whose occupation placed"
"model for the Becky Sharp character was the 18th-century French courtesan, Madame du Barry. Sharp has been portrayed on stage and in films multiple times between 1911 and 2004 and has been the subject of much scholarly debate on issues ranging from 19th-century social history, Victorian fashions, female psychology and gendered fiction. Thackeray wished to demonstrate the impossibility of Victorian England's closely held belief that it was impossible for women to create a fashionable self-image. Set in high regency society at the time of the Waterloo Campaign, it is a ""vast satirical panorama of materialist society"" and an early work"
"achieves with her ability to create herself into something she naturally is not. This makes her ""dangerous"", in contemporary eyes, says Montz, and Sharp plays many such discrete roles throughout the book. However, each time she does reinvent herself in order to overcome the next adversity, her previous reputation always catches up with her. Jennifer Hedgecock has commented that: Becky Sharp was born in Soho, the daughter of an impoverished English artist and a French ""opera-girl""—possibly a prostitute—and is thus of Half-French ancestry. She appears to love her father: Thackeray tells how, as a girl, she would sit with him"
"also began work, never finished, on the novel later published as ""A Shabby Genteel Story"". In ""The Luck of Barry Lyndon"", a novel serialised in ""Fraser's"" in 1844, Thackeray explored the situation of an outsider trying to achieve status in high society, a theme he developed more successfully in ""Vanity Fair"" with the character of Becky Sharp, the artist's daughter who rises nearly to the heights by manipulating the other characters. Thackeray is probably best known now for ""Vanity Fair"". In contrast, his large novels from the period after ""Vanity Fair"", which were once described by Henry James as examples"
"It features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. The Brontë sisters were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. They had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each the following year: Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"", Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne's ""Agnes Grey"". Later, Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) and Charlotte's ""Villette"" (1853)"
"lesser contexts, Becky also appears as Arachne to Miss Pinkerton's Minerva and as a variety of classical figures in the works' illustrations. Rawdon, the younger of the two Crawley sons, is an empty-headed cavalry officer who is his wealthy aunt's favourite until he marries Becky Sharp, who is of a far lower class. He permanently alienates his aunt, who leaves her estate to Rawdon's elder brother Sir Pitt instead. Sir Pitt has by this time inherited their father's estate, leaving Rawdon destitute. The well-meaning Rawdon does have a few talents in life, most of them having to do with gambling"
"made a strong impression on contemporaries. Elizabeth Browning's protagonist of ""Aurora Leigh"" (1856), Marian Erle is a similar character to Sharp. In 1872 ""The Spectator"" reviewed Anthony Trollope's ""The Eustace Diamonds"" and made an unfavourable comparison between Trollope's main female lead, Lady Eustace, with Becky Sharp. The reviewer wrote how ""we had supposed that in Lady Eustace we were to have Mr Trollope's equivalent for Thackeray's 'Becky Sharp’, but we hardly think that we have got it; or if we have, Mr Trollope's equivalent for Thackeray's 'Becky Sharp' is but a poor one."" Henry James called Sharp an ""epic governess"""
"in the modern world. The story focuses on the characters Emmy Sedley and Becky Sharpe (the latter as the clearly defined anti-hero), with the plot focused on the eventual marriage of these two characters to rich men, revealing character flaws as the story progresses. Even the most sympathetic characters, like Captain Dobbin, are susceptible to weakness, as he is often narcissistic and melancholy. The larger-than-life hero is a more common feature of fantasy (particularly in comic-books and epic fantasy) than more realist works. However, these larger-than life figures remain prevalent in society. The superhero genre is a multibillion-dollar industry that"
"whom Captain Rawdon Crawley lusts after in his younger days. Becky Sharp is perceived as a demimondaine before she is presented at court, and then becomes one when she travels through Europe after her husband abandons her. Possibly the most famous portrayal of the demimonde, albeit from before the word was coined, is in Verdi's opera ""La traviata"" (1853). The opera, in turn, was inspired by Alexandre Dumas the younger's ""La Dame aux Camélias;"" Marguerite Gautier, the heroine of the book and subsequent play, was based on Marie Duplessis, 1840s Paris courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent men,"
"gained credit for renewing interest in the Middle Ages. Many well-known writers from the United Kingdom published historical novels in the mid 19th century, the most notable include Thackeray's ""Vanity Fair"", Charles Dickens's ""A Tale of Two Cities"", George Eliot's ""Romola"" and Charles Kingsley's ""Westward Ho!"" and ""Hereward the Wake"". ""The Trumpet-Major"" (1880) is Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, and is set in Weymouth during the Napoleonic wars; when the town was then anxious about the possibility of invasion by Napoleon. In the United States, James Fenimore Cooper was a prominent author of historical novels who was influenced by Scott."
"any sign that there is a real Becky beneath the facade of the performer, the flirtatious lover, the good wife, the social climber, the capricious friend"". Such women as Sharp, wrote Frazee, contributed ""nearly as much to the pungent flavour of the period as did the regent himself"". Margaret Atwood has praised Sharp as a character, writing how she ""makes no pretensions to goodness. She is wicked, she enjoys being wicked, and she does it out of vanity and her own profit, tricking and deluding English society in the process"". She compares Sharp to Edith Wharton's Undine Spragg in ""The"
"understood how, from Sharp's actions, she was a bad woman. However, their judgement would be based as much on actual expectations of real social morality as on what they read in Thackeray's pages. More, that they thought she was bad need not have meant they were necessarily unsympathetic. Thackeray himself compared Sharp's career as ""resembling the slitherings of a mermaid"", and Harold Bloom says that she is enough of a character to make her fundamentally likeable, to the extent that ""any reader who does not like Becky is almost certainly not very likeable herself or himself"". Poet Dorothy Parker—herself orphaned"
"which is centred on George. 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 to her. However, he finds that she has secretly married his second son, Captain Rawdon Crawley, but Becky very much regrets having done this as she had no idea that his father's wife would die so soon after. Sir Pitt's elder half sister,"
"two remaining adaptations remains unknown. The Tin Princess The Tin Princess (1994) is a young adult novel by the English author Philip Pullman, part of the Sally Lockhart series. Sixteen-year-old Becky is about to have her life changed. A dramatic explosion is only the start of her incredible adventure. As maid to the cockney Crown Princess (Adelaide of ""The Ruby in the Smoke"", whose fortunes have greatly changed) of Razkavia, a tiny kingdom in Europe, she is plunged into a turmoil of murder and intrigue. Rebecca 'Becky' Winthers is the first character introduced in the book. She is hired as"
"possible that Thackeray pastiches the classic Victorian novel's denoument in which the heroine makes a ""death-in-life renunciation of worldly pleasures""—or the guise of one. Amanda Sedley's husband, George Osborne, wants to seduce Sharp: he too fails to see through Sharp's projected image—""blinded by Becky's constructed self"". Sharp clearly has sexual misadventures"", but Thackeray never makes the connection between Sharp's sexual relationships and rise in social status explicit. For Sharp, sexuality and femininity are primarily tools with which to improve her social and financial position in both the short- and long-term. She is unmotivated, says Claudia Nelson, ""by either heart or"
"specifically the playground of the idle and undeserving rich. All of these senses appear in Thackeray's work. The story is framed by its preface and coda as a puppet show taking place at a fair; the cover illustration of the serial instalments was not of the characters but of a troupe of comic actors at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park. The narrator, variously a show manager or writer, appears at times within the work itself and is highly unreliable, repeating a tale of gossip at second or third hand. London, 1814. Rebecca Sharp (""Becky""), daughter of an art teacher and"
"wealthy but irascible elderly woman. In an unpublished 1911 essay, novelist Charles Reade used the accepted image of Sharp to illustrate Madame du Barry's assertion that the most foolish woman can trick a man, by using the education that he has paid for her to have against him. Says Reade, that had she known of Thackeray's creation, du Barry would have asserted ""the wisest of the sex is a Becky Sharp"". It has in turn been suggested that du Barry was a direct model for Thackery's Sharp, with both women being ""careless beauties cursed with ambition beyond reason, who venture"
"The Tin Princess The Tin Princess (1994) is a young adult novel by the English author Philip Pullman, part of the Sally Lockhart series. Sixteen-year-old Becky is about to have her life changed. A dramatic explosion is only the start of her incredible adventure. As maid to the cockney Crown Princess (Adelaide of ""The Ruby in the Smoke"", whose fortunes have greatly changed) of Razkavia, a tiny kingdom in Europe, she is plunged into a turmoil of murder and intrigue. Rebecca 'Becky' Winthers is the first character introduced in the book. She is hired as a language tutor for Adelaide"
"much-older brother (Billy Bevan). After Becky tries unsuccessfully to trap him into marriage, Mrs. Sedley sees her cuddling in the home's drawing room with her daughter's fiancé, George Osborne. Disgusted, the mother calls ""Miss Sharp"" into the adjoining room, where she advises Becky to leave immediately so she can begin the job she had accepted before the holidays, that of governess for the family of Sir Pitt Crawley. Becky heeds the thinly veiled advice and departs. Upon her arrival at the residence of Lord Crawley, Becky quickly stirs the passions of both the elderly Sir Pitt and his son Rawdon"
"the references extend the allusion to all daughters in all drawing rooms as potential Iphigenias waiting to be sacrificed by their families. Her sacrifice of her child to her wealthy relatives is compared to the biblical Hannah. Rebecca Sharp, called Becky, is Amelia's opposite, an intelligent young woman with a gift for satire. She is described as a short sandy haired girl who has green eyes and a great deal of wit. Becky is born to a French opera dancer mother and an art teacher and artist father Francis. Fluent in both French and English, Becky has a beautiful singing"
"Margery Sharp Clara Margery Melita Sharp (25 January 1905 – 14 March 1991), was an English author of 26 novels for adults, 14 children's novels, 4 plays, 2 mysteries, and numerous short stories. Her most famous work is ""The Rescuers"" series about a mouse named Miss Bianca, which was later adapted in two animated feature films, ""The Rescuers"" and ""The Rescuers Down Under"" by Disney. Sharp was born in the district of Salisbury in the county of Wiltshire, England, although her family originated from northern Yorkshire. She spent part of her childhood in Malta, a period she later drew on"
"landmark in cinema as the first feature film to use the newly developed three-strip Technicolor production throughout, opening the way for a growing number of color films to be made in Britain and the United States in the years leading up to World War II. The film recounts the tale of a lower-class girl who insinuates herself into an upper-class family, only to see her life and the lives of those around her destroyed. Becky Sharp (Miriam Hopkins), a socially ambitious English young lady, manages to survive during the background years of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. The poor and low"
"19th century, is seen as beginning in 1921, when Georgette Heyer published ""The Black Moth"". This is set in 1751, but many of Heyer's novels were inspired by Jane Austen's novels and are set around the time Austen lived, in the later Regency period. Because Heyer's romances are set more than 100 years earlier, she includes carefully researched historical detail to help her readers understand the period. Unlike other popular love-romance novels of the time, Heyer's novels used the setting as a major plot device. Her characters often exhibit twentieth century sensibilities, and more conventional characters in the novels point"
"had been subtitled ""Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society"" and both they and the early bound versions featured Thackeray's own illustrations. These sometimes provided symbolically-freighted images, such as one of the female characters being portrayed as a man-eating mermaid. In at least one case, a major plot point is provided through an image and its caption. Although the text makes it clear that other characters suspect Becky Sharp to have murdered her second husband, there is nothing definitive in the text itself. However, an image reveals her overhearing Jos pleading with Dobbin while clutching a small white object in"
"Olivia Cooke Olivia Kate Cooke (born 27 December 1993) is an English actress. She played Emma Decody in A&E's drama-thriller series ""Bates Motel from 2013 to 2017"", and in 2018 she starred as Becky Sharp in the miniseries, ""Vanity Fair"". Cooke has also starred in the horror films ""The Quiet Ones"" (2014) and ""Ouija"" (2014), the science fiction film ""The Signal"" (2014), the comedy-drama ""Me and Earl and the Dying Girl"" (2015), the horror-mystery ""The Limehouse Golem"" (2016), the thriller ""Thoroughbreds"" (2017), and the Steven Spielberg-directed science-fiction film ""Ready Player One"" (2018). Cooke was born and raised in Oldham, Greater"
"The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (2000) (Confessions of a Shopaholic in the United States and India) is the first in the popular Shopaholic series. It is a chick-lit novel by Sophie Kinsella, a pen-name of Madeleine Wickham. It focuses on the main character Rebecca (Becky) Bloomwood, a financial journalist, who is in a serious amount of debt through her shopping addiction. Rebecca Bloomwood lives in a flat in fashionable Fulham, London, that is owned by her best friend Suze's wealthy, aristocratic parents. Becky works as a financial journalist for the magazine ""Successful Savings"","
"Gerard Murphy as Lord Steyne<br> Robert Cole as Little Rawdon<br> Zohren Weiss as Little Georgey ""Winner"": ""Nominated"": Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial) Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name broadcast in 1998. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies. The BBC previously adapted the novel as a serial twice before, in 1967 and also in 1987. For a full length summary of the book see: ""Vanity Fair"" plot summary. Natasha Little as Becky Sharp (character)<br> Frances Grey as Amelia Sedley<br> David Ross as Mr. Sedley <br> Philip Glenister as"
"Becky Bloomwood Rebecca Jane 'Becky' Brandon (née Bloomwood) is a fictional character and the main protagonist from the Shopaholic series of novels by British author Sophie Kinsella. Becky grew up in Oxshott, Surrey with her Mum and Dad. After attending Bristol University, she moved to London. She first lived with her best friend Susan ""Suze"" Cleath-Stuart before she eventually moved to New York City. Prior to moving to New York, she worked as a personal finance expert on a breakfast television program called 'Morning Coffee'. Becky met her future husband, Luke Brandon, CEO of Brandon Communications (a Public Relations firm)"
"Kent) and her friend Becky Sharp (Myrna Loy), young ladies who agewise are in their twenties. Amelia is from a rich, well-connected family, while Becky is from very modest means and has no family at all. Given Becky's circumstances, Amelia has invited her to her home for the Christmas holidays. At the Sedley estate Amelia's family welcomes their guest, but the mother is soon wary of her. Those suspicions are warranted, for Becky aims to use her beauty and guile to gain wealth and privilege by climbing England's social ladder. Her first target for achieving those goals is Joseph, Amelia's"
"Charlotte, is another major nineteenth century novel that has gothic themes. Anne's second novel ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848), written in realistic rather than romantic style, is mainly considered to be the first sustained feminist novel. Later in this period George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), published ""The Mill on the Floss"" in 1860, and in 1872 her most famous work ""Middlemarch"". Like the Brontës she published under a masculine pseudonym. In the later decades of the Victorian era Thomas Hardy was the most important novelist. His works include ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" (1872), ""Far from the Madding Crowd"" (1874),"
"production of Langdon Mitchell's ""Becky Sharp"", a play based on William Makepeace Thackeray's ""Vanity Fair"". Among her many triumphs on the Broadway stage were: ""Becky Sharp"" (1899, revivals 1904, 1911), ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" (1897, revival 1902), ""A Doll's House"" (1902), ""Hedda Gabler"" (1903, revival 1904), ""Leah Kleschna"" (1904–05), ""Salvation Nell"" (1908–09), ""The High Road"" (1912–13), ""Madame Sand"" (1917–18), a play about George Sand; ""Mis' Nelly of N'Orleans"" (1919), ""Helena's Boys"" (1924), ""Ghosts"" (1927), ""Ladies of the Jury"" (1929–30), as well as her self-written plays ""The Rose"" (1905), ""The Eyes of the Heart"" (1905), ""A Light from St. Agnes"" (1906)."
"Twelve Sharp Twelve Sharp, published in 2006, is the 12th novel by Janet Evanovich featuring the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. The hardcover version appeared at the top of the New York Times Bestseller List in the week of July 9, 2006, while the paperback release has also been in the top four spots in 2007. The novel begins with Stephanie being stalked by Carmen Manoso, a woman claiming to be the wife of Ranger, a fellow bounty hunter with whom Stephanie has occasionally been intimate. Ranger is out of town on ""bad business"" when Stephanie learns that his daughter has"