![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She's returning to her family home and looks forward to marrying her sweetheart George Osborne a match preordained by both families from their babyhood. Even though they seem fond of each other, it's soon clear to the reader that they have nothing remotely in common beyond heading for a week to the same destination.Īmelia Sedley is the soft-hearted daughter of a wealthy stockbroker. It all starts when two young friends graduate from finishing school and head off in a carriage together. It drops us right into scandal and intrigue and even whisks us off for a while to the Battle of Waterloo. I can quite understand why Thackeray's readers would have been panting for the next installment. I was soon engrossed in this family drama set between 18, but published as a serial throughout 1847. Here's my choice for the Classic Adaptation in the 2020 Back to the Classics Challenge. We are to choose any novel that's been adapted as a film or TV series, so I thought I'd take the chance to read Vanity Fair and also watch the highly acclaimed BBC series from 2018. A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. ![]()
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