:( The relevant person here is Becky Sharp.

Thackeray has Rosalind using their as a polite circumlocution, perhaps avoiding the directness of she ... her, and generic his in a context involving only women ; or perhaps with Rosalind meaning the statement to apply to people in general with Becky Sharp as an example.

Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, writing papers with a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts like Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair and the title characters of The Luck of Barry Lyndon and Catherine.

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 which 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.

It also features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp.

The story opens with Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where the protagonists Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in Russell Square.

Now, Becky Sharp says farewell to Sedley's family and enters the service of the crude and profligate baronet Sir Pitt Crawley, who has engaged her as a governess to his daughters.

While Becky Sharp is rising in the world, Amelia's father, John Sedley, is bankrupted.

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.

Obese and self-important but very shy and insecure, he is attracted to Becky Sharp but circumstances prevent him from proposing.

His intent may have been to entrap the Victorian reader with their own prejudices and make them think the worst of Becky Sharp even when they have no proof of her actions.

At the novel's beginning, Becky Sharp is a bright girl with an eye to improving her lot through marrying up the social scale ; though she is thoroughly unsentimental, she is nonetheless portrayed as being a good friend to Amelia.

The character of Becky Sharp is based in part on Thackeray's maternal grandmother Harriet Becher.

* 1935: Becky Sharp: starring Miriam Hopkins and Frances Dee, the first film shot in Technicolor

Starring Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp and Natasha Little from the television miniseries of ' Vanity Fair ' as Lady Jane Sheepshanks.

* 1967: Vanity Fair: BBC miniseries adapted by Rex Tucker starring Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp, for which she received an Emmy Award in 1973.

* 1987: Vanity Fair: BBC miniseries starring Eve Matheson as Becky Sharp, Rebecca Saire as Amelia Sedley, James Saxon as Jos Sedley and Simon Dormandy as Dobbin

* 1998: Vanity Fair: BBC miniseries starring Natasha Little as Becky Sharp

The NBC radio series Favorite Story, hosted by Ronald Colman, broadcast a half-hour adaptation with Joan Loring as " Becky Sharp ".

* 1935 – Becky Sharp, the first feature film made in full color ( Technicolor ), is released.

* Becky Sharp ( character )

Witherspoon's character – Becky Sharp – is a woman whose impoverished childhood turns her into an ambitious person with a ruthless determination to find fortune and establish herself a position in society.

* Becky Sharp ( 1935 )

It features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp.

Hopkins also had great success during the remainder of the decade with the romantic screwball comedy The Richest Girl in the World ( 1934 ), the historical drama Becky Sharp ( 1935 ), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, Barbary Coast ( 1935 ), These Three ( 1936 ) ( the first of four films with director William Wyler ) and The Old Maid ( 1939 ).

At a ball in Brussels ( based on the Duchess of Richmond's famous ball on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo ) George gives Becky a note inviting her to run away with him.

Becky, on the other hand, is virtually indifferent to her husband's departure.

Meanwhile, Becky also has a son, also named after his father, but unlike Amelia, who dotes on and even spoils her child, Becky is a cold, distant mother.

The couple lives mostly on credit, and while Rawdon seems to be too dim-witted to be aware of the effect of his borrowing on the people around him, Becky is fully aware that her heavy borrowing and her failure to pay bills bankrupts at least two innocent people: her servant, Briggs, whose life savings Becky borrows and fritters away, and her landlord Raggles, who was formerly a butler to the Crawley family and who invested his life savings in the townhouse that Becky and Rawdon rent ( and fail to pay for ).

Ultimately Becky is suspected of carrying on an extramarital affair with the Marquis of Steyne, apparently encouraged by Rawdon to prostitute herself in exchange for money and promotion.

After the death of old Mr. Osborne, Amelia, Joseph, George and Dobbin go on a trip to Germany, where they encounter the destitute Becky.

It is only when Becky shows her George's letter to her that Amelia is able to move on ; though she informs Becky that she has already written to Dobbin to ask him to come back.

Somewhat pedantic and conservative, Sir Pitt does nothing to help Rawdon or Becky even when they fall on hard times.

Sir Pitt and Rawdon both dote on her, although Rawdon is her favourite nephew and sole heir until he marries Becky.

However, even Becky, who is amoral and cunning, is thrown on her own resources by poverty and its stigma.

BBC Radio broadcast an adaptation of the novel by Stephen Wyatt in 2004 starring Emma Fielding as Becky, Stephen Fry as the Narrator, Katy Cavanaugh as Amelia, David Calder, Philip Fox, Jon Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead as Mr. Osbourne, Ian Marsters as Mr. Sedley, Alice Hart as Maria Osbourne and Margaret Tyzack as Miss Crawley ( subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7, renamed BBC Radio 4 Extra, in twenty fifteen-minute episodes ).

Their first child, Joan, was born on January 15, 1901, and their second, Bessie ( later called Becky ), on October 20, 1902.

The church was opened by Becky King approximately three years ago, she leads the community in clothing drives, community bon fires, and the church has opened a sawmill on a vacant lot in the start of building a church.

* Becky and Jessie O ' Donohue, contestants on Fear Factor and American Idol, also played roles in the movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

File: BeckyThatcheratNevilleIsland. jpg | The Becky Thatcher docked on Neville Island on October 17, 2009.

Bishop was in Becky Shaw at the Second Stage Theatre in 2008.

In 1900 she created the role of Nell Gwynne in Anthony Hope's English Nell ( based on Simon Dale ) at the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London, followed at the same theatre in 1901 by the title roles in Peg Woffington by Charles Reade and Becky Sharp, an adaptation of Vanity Fair, by Robert Hichens and her husband.