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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.
Christina Patterson: Why Is Madonna A 'Hopeless Romantic'? Christina Patterson 2012
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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.
Christina Patterson: Why Is Madonna A 'Hopeless Romantic'? Christina Patterson 2012
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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.
Christina Patterson: Why Is Madonna A 'Hopeless Romantic'? Christina Patterson 2012
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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.
Christina Patterson: Why Is Madonna A 'Hopeless Romantic'? Christina Patterson 2012
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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.
Christina Patterson: Why Is Madonna A 'Hopeless Romantic'? Christina Patterson 2012
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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.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Christina Patterson 2012
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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."
A Blind Date With 'Vanity Fair' Paul Levy 2011
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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.
Dave Astor: When a Novel's Main Character Is Unlikable Dave Astor 2011
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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.
Dave Astor: When a Novel's Main Character Is Unlikable Dave Astor 2011
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Adroit social-climbing and boudoir-hopping were central to elegant self-advancement.
Why They All Came to Versailles Frederic Raphael 2011
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