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
Sedley baronets extinct on the death of the eighth Baronet in circa 1770. The Baronetcy Sedley of Southfleet in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of England on 10 July 1702 for Charles Sedley, the grandson of the fifth Baronet of Aylesford by an illegitimate son Charles. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Nottingham. The title became extinct on his death in 1778. Sedley baronets There have been three baronetcies created for members of the Sedley ( otherwise Sidley) family of Kent, all in the Baronetage of England. All three creations are extinct. All the baronets