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NOBLESSE OBLIGE.(Snobs)(Book Review)
Byline: Florence Kane
As the Oscar-winning screenwriter of such films as Gosford Park and Vanity Fair, Julian Fellowes knows a thing or two about British society and those who dare to infiltrate it. His Becky Sharp in Snobs (St. Martin's Press), a delightful first novel set in the "post-Thatcherite" 1990s, is middle-class London beauty Edith Lavery, who coolly climbs her way into the aristocracy by marrying the Earl Broughton (who "will shoot and farm and farm and shoot" for the next 50 years). But Edith, quickly disenchanted with her plodding husband ...
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...Cheney's charisma. The 28-year-old star makes the political personal in her latest film. She was surely born to play Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, Mira Nair's incisive adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's freewheeling satire about the rise and...
- Becky Sharp
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Becky Sharp, Vanity Fair.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Becky Sharp.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Mrs. Fiske (right) as Becky Sharp
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Cents and sensibility.(In The Country; Snobs)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Sessa, Andrew March 1, 2005 700+ words
...SNOBS (St. Martin's; $24), the debut novel from screenwriter Julian Fellowes, the nouveau riche heroine, Edith Lavery, meets a handsome young earl and turns a weekend in the country into an opportunity to live among (and attempt to...
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- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) May 24, 2004 700+ words
...Fellowes (Weidenfeld, [pounds sterling]12.99) THE story at the heart of Snobs is profoundly - and deceptively - simple. Edith Lavery, an attractive social climber, meets and marries a scion of the anciens riches, the dull, decent Charles, Earl Broughton...
