The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon), the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess ...

This adaptation of Vanity Fair – Reese Witherspoon starred as Becky Sharp in the 2004 film version – is written by a woman, Gwyneth Hughes, who also made the decision to keep in an ...

William Makepeace Thackeray’s literary classic is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, following the young Becky Sharp as she ... and Poldark. Vanity Fair is a story of “villainy ...

Middlebury's 'Gatsby' love connection. This spring, Sarah Wynn-Williams released "Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work" (Macmillan, $32.99). The title comes from F. Sc ...

William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair was the 1848 version of ... The plucky protagonist, Becky Sharp, and her social-climbing, charmingly manipulative ways may have been an unlikely ...

Emma Bullimore from the TV Times and Morgan Jeffrey from Digital Spy share their thoughts on ITV's new adaptation of Vanity Fair ... "Olivia Cooke plays Becky Sharp. This is a real feminist ...

Becky Sharp attempts to claw her way out of her poverty-stricken life to scale the heights of English society, set against the Napoleonic Wars in the years following Napoleon's defeat. Adapted from ...