Who are some famously worldly or materialistic literary characters or historical information?
anyone BEFORE the 1900's. Thank you.
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You mean in books written before 1900? Or only just set before the 1900s.
Anyway, Becky Sharp in VANITY FAIR is both.
this is the wikipedia description:
Becky Sharp is the anti-heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair (1847–48). A cynical social climber who uses her charms to mesmerize and seduce upper-class men, Sharp is contrasted with the clinging, dependent heroine Amelia Sedley. Sharp functions as a picaroon by being a social outsider who is able to expose the manners of the upper gentry to ridicule. Her identify ("sharp" having connotations of a "sharper" or confidence man) and function suggest that Thackeray intended her to be unsympathetic, and yet she became one of his most popular creations.
Scarlett O'hara contained by Margret Mitchell's 'Gone With the Wind'
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You mean in books written before 1900? Or only just set before the 1900s.
Anyway, Becky Sharp in VANITY FAIR is both.
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