Becky Sharp Becky Sharp Rebecca Sharp is the main protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847–48 novel "Vanity Fair". She is presented as a cynical social climber who uses her charms to fascinate and seduce upper-class men. This is in contrast with the clinging, dependent Amelia Sedley, her friend whom she befriends at school. Becky then uses Amelia as a stepping stone to gain social position. Sharp functions as a "picara"—a picaresque heroine—or by being a social outsider who is able to expose the manners of the upper gentry to ridicule. The book—and Sharp's career—begins in a traditional manner of Victorian fiction, that
Amelia of Masovia death on 13 March 1425, Amelia returned to Masovia. She was buried in either Płock Cathedral or a near Dominican convent. Amelia of Masovia Amelia of Masovia (pl: "Amelia mazowiecka"; 1397/98 - after 17 May 1434), was a Polish princess member of the House of Piast in the Masovian branch. She was the fourth daughter of Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia and Alexandra, a daughter of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania and sister of King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland. In 1407 William II, Margrave of Meissen asked her hand in marriage. The wedding by proxy took place on 16