Becky Sharp is the heroine of which novel?
"Vanity Fair (2004 film) Vanity Fair is a 2004 British-American historical drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name. The novel has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, and Nair's version made notable changes in the development of main character Becky Sharp. The film was nominated for ""Golden Lion"" Award in 2004 Venice Film Festival. In 1802 England, Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of an impoverished painter, has just finished her studies at Miss Pinkerton's School for Girls and has been offered a position as governess to the"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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)"
"that Becky was there. He invites her to come and live in India with him, and she delightedly accepts. The two depart to make a new life for themselves. The film adaptation of ""Vanity Fair"" had been in development for over 10 years, with writers Matthew Faulk and Mark Skeet working on the screenplay. Mira Nair became attached to the project in 2002 and scrapped most of the initial screenplay. She brought Julian Fellowes in to rewrite the film; he agreed with her that the character of Becky Sharp should be made more sympathetic than in the novel. The ending"
"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"
"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"
"Shopaholic and Sister Shopaholic and Sister (2004) is a chick-lit novel by Sophie Kinsella, a pseudonym of Madeline Wickham. It is the fourth book in the Shopaholic series. It follows the story of Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) and her husband Luke as they return from their ten-month long honeymoon. The novel commences with the protagonist, Becky Bloomwood, coming to the conclusion of her extravagant ten-month-long honeymoon around the World with her husband, Luke. Although the newlyweds have been enjoying themselves, Luke and Becky decide it is time to return home to England. Before returning home, the couple embarks upon a"
"book, see: ""Vanity Fair"" plot summary. This adaptation is now available on DVD, distributed by Acorn Media UK. Vanity Fair (1967 TV serial) Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name broadcast in 1967 (the first drama serial in colour produced by the BBC). It starred Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp, for which she received an Emmy Award in 1973. The serial was also broadcast in 1972 in the US on PBS television as part of ""Masterpiece Theatre"". The BBC would later produce another adaptation in 1987, and another in"
"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"
"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"","
"delivery of Luke and Becky's child into the world, a daughter they name Minnie. Relieved, Becky and Luke are given some privacy in welcoming Minnie. The book ends with Luke, Becky and Minnie living modestly in the Bloomwood family home. Shopaholic and Baby Shopaholic and Baby (2007) is the fifth novel in the popular 'Shopaholic' series. It is a chick-lit novel by Sophie Kinsella, a pseudonym of Madeline Wickham. It follows the story of Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) and her husband Luke as they navigate Becky's first pregnancy. The plot jumps several months forward from ""Shopaholic and Sister"". Becky is"
"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)"
"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"
"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"
"the feisty and scheming Becky Sharp in ""Vanity Fair"" makes this adaptation of Thackeray's classic novel more relatable for a 21st century audience."" Following the conclusion of the series and on writing about the series's significantly low viewing figures in comparison to its ""BBC One"" rival, ""Bodyguard"", Ben Dowell of the Radio Times praised Cooke's performance, writing that ""of all the TV Beckys down the ages – Joyce Redman, Susan Hampshire, Eve Matheson, Natasha Little, not to mention Reese Witherspoon in the 2004 film – Cooke is definitely one of the best we’ve ever had."" Vanity Fair (2018 TV series)"
"Vanity Fair (1967 TV serial) Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name broadcast in 1967 (the first drama serial in colour produced by the BBC). It starred Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp, for which she received an Emmy Award in 1973. The serial was also broadcast in 1972 in the US on PBS television as part of ""Masterpiece Theatre"". The BBC would later produce another adaptation in 1987, and another in 1998. A previous version was transmitted on the BBC in 1956/7. For a full length summary of the"
"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"
"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"""
"Shopaholic Ties the Knot Shopaholic Ties the Knot (2002) is the third in the popular ""Shopaholic"" series. It is a chick-lit novel by Sophie Kinsella, a pseudonym of Madeline Wickham. It follows the story of Becky Bloomwood and her boyfriend (later fiancé) Luke Brandon as they become engaged and plan their wedding. The book opens with Becky living with her boyfriend Luke in Manhattan's West Village. She has finally found her career calling as a personal shopper at Barney’s and is happily helping her best friend, Suze plan her wedding. Becky's best friend, Danny, helps her make a bridesmaid's dress."
"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"
"One"", which was released in March 2018. She will also star alongside Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde and Samuel L. Jackson in Dan Fogelman's relationship drama film ""Life Itself"". Olivia Cooke played the lead character, Becky Sharp in the 2018 ITV production of ""Vanity Fair"". Cooke resides in New York City. Cooke is close friends with her ""Me and Earl and the Dying Girl"" co-star Thomas Mann, and her ""Bates Motel"" co-stars Freddie Highmore and Nicola Peltz. In 2014, Cooke supported the Save the Children campaign by appearing in Bulgari advertisements. Olivia Cooke Olivia Kate Cooke (born 27 December 1993) is"
"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"
"Derek Smeath, will continue to keep an eye on her account. Becky Bloomwood: the main character and protagonist in the story. Although she works as a financial journalist, she also has significant debts concerning her credit cards and her constant overdrafts. Despite it, nothing stops her from buying new clothes, shoes and new items which others think are unnecessary. Susan ""Suze"" Cleath-Stuart: Becky's aristocratic best friend who keeps an eye on her spending spree. She is described as blonde and is an even worse shopaholic than Becky. In ""Shopaholic Abroad"", it's revealed that Suze and Alicia have a bitter history"
"movie"". Despite being panned by critics, the sequel took in over $39 million in its first five days in the U.S. box office charts and eventually grossed $90 million in the US. Witherspoon received a $15 million paycheck for the role—a starting point to make her consistently one of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses from 2002 until 2010. In 2004, Witherspoon starred in ""Vanity Fair"", adapted from the 19th-century classic novel ""Vanity Fair"" and directed by Mira Nair. Her character, Becky Sharp, is a poor woman with a ruthless determination to find fortune and establish herself a position in society. Witherspoon was"
"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"
"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,"
"time, ""The Charlotte Observer"" called her work ""an excellent performance that's soft around the edges"" and the ""Los Angeles Times"" concluded that Becky is ""a role Reese Witherspoon was born to play"". However, ""LA Weekly"" wrote ""[Witherspoon] ends up conveying so little of what's at once appalling and perversely attractive about the would-be mistress of Vanity Fair"" and states that it may have to do with Witherspoon's vanity, ""with an Oscar-less young star's need to be loved more than anyone could conceivably love the ""real"" Becky Sharp."". Others have stated she was miscast. In late 2004, Witherspoon began working alongside"
"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 William Dobbin<br> Michele Dotrice as Mrs. Sedley<br> Janine Duvitski as Mrs. Bute Crawley<br> Anton Lesser as Mr."