Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial) Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial) Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name broadcast in 1998. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies. The BBC previously adapted the novel as a serial twice before, in 1967 and also in 1987. For a full length summary of the book see: "Vanity Fair" plot summary. Natasha Little as Becky Sharp (character)<br> Frances Grey as Amelia Sedley<br> David Ross as Mr. Sedley <br> Philip Glenister as William Dobbin<br> Michele Dotrice as Mrs. Sedley<br> Janine Duvitski as Mrs. Bute Crawley<br> Anton Lesser as Mr.
Kate Dobbin husband Sir Alfred Dobbin are both represented in the collection of the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland. Kate Dobbin Kate Dobbin RHA (1868–1955) was an English artist who specialised in impressionistic watercolours of Irish country scenes and still lives of flowers. Dobbin was born Kate Wise in Bristol, England in 1868. She moved to Cork in 1887, where she met and married Cork's High Sheriff and merchant, Alfred Graham Dobbin. Dobbin studied at the Crawford Municipal School of Art from 1891 to 1895 under the tuition Harry Scully. Dobbin died in the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork in 1955.