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[Goddlefrood]

> Goddlefrood wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/35811>:

> << Vanity Fair <Blah> A superb portrait of mid-Victorian life, 
> and funny too. >>

Catlady:
 
> Mid-Victorian? I may be terribly confused. My recollection is 
> that Vanity Fair, by Thackery, is largely about one Becky Sharpe 
> but also is one of the books with a depiction of the Battle of 
> Waterloo? Early 19th century rather than late 19th century? 
> Bustles far from being invented yet?

Goddlefrood:

Ah, but you see it is a book very much of the times it was written 
in, notwithstanding when it was set.

Mid-Victorian ish, written in 1848.