Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Date: 1847–1848
Genre: Satire, Social Criticism
Country: UK
A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.