Becky Sharp International Television Festival as well as a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role as well. Olivia Cooke played Sharp in a 2018 television series, screened on ITV over seven episodes. 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
Sedley Taylor Council to pay for the dental inspection of every school child at a council-funded school. This led to the founding of the first municipal dental clinic in the country. Around 1,300 children had had their teeth checked by a qualified dentist at the new Cambridge Dental Institute in the first year. Sedley Taylor Road in west Cambridge is named after him. This article incorporates public domain material from Sedley Taylor, obituary in Nature, 1920. Sedley Taylor Sedley Taylor (29 November 1834 – 14 March 1920) was a British academic, librarian and one of the Professors at the Trinity College in