Masterpiece Theatre "Vanity Fair" is an adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel about a poor farm girl who rose to the upper ranks of British aristocracy during the Napoleonic wars. In Episode One, we meet young Amelia Sedley an... (more)d her beloved friend Becky Sharp, who leave the safe, comfortable surroundings of Miss Pinkerton's Boarding School to begin their search in the wider world for love, marriage and fortune.