The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky
Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for
girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent
French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep
her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through
marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the
vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention
from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers
her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent,
and irrepressible.
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