:( 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 ).

The series ' opening sequence depicts each of the main characters, with the exception of Kim Kelly ( Busy Philipps ) and Harold and Jean Weir ( Joe Flaherty and Becky Ann Baker ), having their high school yearbook photo taken as the song " Bad Reputation " by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts plays.

" Becky the Nose " is Rally's main source of information on all the goings on in the Chicago underworld.

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.

His debut appearance is in the third episode where he and Becky go to Robert and Tracy's house for dinner, but generally features less regularly than the main ensemble.

She had no idea his fling had been with Becky Granger, a supporting character who slowly rose to more prominent status.

Becky has unfortunately deteriorated as a character.

In the original illustrations, which were done by Thackeray, Becky is shown behind a curtain with a vial in her hand ; the picture is labelled " Becky's second appearance in the character of Clytemnestra " ( she had played Clytemnestra during charades at a party earlier in the book ).

Although Becky is portrayed as having a highly dubious moral sense, the idea that she would commit premeditated murder is quite a step forward for the character.

Though Thackeray does not settle definitively whether Becky murders Jos, such a development is in keeping with the overall trend of character development in the novel.

This work rewrites Becky as a sympathetic character, whose faults are " understandable.

Crystal would go on to play Becky Slater, a recurring character and onetime love interest of Kevin Arnold.

The home of childhood friend Laura Hawkins, said to be the inspiration for his fictional character Becky Thatcher, is preserved as the " Thatcher House.

Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn ( character ) | Huckleberry Finn, and List of Tom Sawyer characters # Rebecca " Becky " Thatcher | Becky Thatcher in List of Tom Sawyer characters # Injun Joe | Injun Joe's cave.

series WordGirl titled " Mr. Big's Dolls and Dollars " uses the word in an advertisement during " The Pretty Princess and Sparkling Pony Power Hour " for a doll of the title character created by Mr. Big, one of the show's villains that does the opposite of what the real heroine does, saying " I will use strategery to defeat you ", of which the real WordGirl ( in her guise of Becky Botsford ) claims that she'd never use the word.

The GBA game introduces a new character called Becky ( or Miki-chan in Japanese ) who is also a miko like Pocky, but is only beginning her duties.

In both films, the mother is a performer – Becky a singer, the Lana Turner character in Sirk's film an actress – whose career takes precedence over a young daughter ; mother and daughter are rivals over a man ; both films begin with the child separated from her mother at a holiday resort ; and at one point Rebeca tells her mother to stop acting, a phrase borrowed from the Sirk's film.

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.

* In Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess, the character Becky is a scullery maid.

* Becky Randall appears as a character in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O ' Neill.