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It's about, in other words, a social-climbing American divorcee who tried to break into English society and did rather well.
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It's about, in other words, a social-climbing American divorcee who tried to break into English society and did rather well.
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It's about, in other words, a social-climbing American divorcee who tried to break into English society and did rather well.
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It's about, in other words, a social-climbing American divorcee who tried to break into English society and did rather well.
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It's about, in other words, a social-climbing American divorcee who tried to break into English society and did rather well.
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It's about, in other words, a social-climbing American divorcee who tried to break into English society and did rather well.
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I confess I was puzzled by the title, as I couldn't help but think of Becky Sharp, Thackeray's social-climbing "heroine" in "Vanity Fair."
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A good example is Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country, which focuses on the beautiful but heartless, shallow, materialistic, social-climbing, never-satisfied Undine Spragg.
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A good example is Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country, which focuses on the beautiful but heartless, shallow, materialistic, social-climbing, never-satisfied Undine Spragg.
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Adroit social-climbing and boudoir-hopping were central to elegant self-advancement.
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