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CHAPTER IChiswick MallWhile the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour. A black servant, who reposed on the box beside the fat coachman, uncurled his bandy legs as soon as the equipage drew up opposite Miss Pinkerton's shining brass plate, and as he pulled the bell, at least a score of young heads were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house. Nay, the acute observer might have recognized the little red nose of good-natured Miss Jemima Pinkerton herself, rising over some geranium pots in the window of that lady's own drawing-room."It is Mrs. Sedley's coach, sister," said Miss Jemima. "Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coachman has a new red waistcoat.""Have you completed all the necessary preparations incident to Miss Sedley's departure, Miss Jemima?" asked Miss Pinkerton herself, that majestic lady; the Semiramis of Hammersmith, the friend of Doctor Johnson, the correspondent of Mrs. Chapone herself."The girls were up at four this morning, packing her trunks, sister," replied Miss Jemima; "we have made her a bow-pot.""Say a bouquet, sister Jemima, 'tis more genteel.""Well, a booky as big almost as a haystack; I have put up two bottles of the gillyflower water for Mrs. Sedley, and the receipt for making it, in Amelia's box.""And I trust, Miss Jemima, you have made a copy of Miss Sedley's account. This is it, is it? Very good—ninety-three pounds, four shillings. Be kind enough to address it to John Sedley, Esquire, and to seal this billet which I have written to his lady."《名利场》第一部分契息克林荫道当时我们这世纪刚开始了十几年。
复古杂封面大赏——百年前的《名利场》VanityFair《名利场》（英语：Vanity Fair）是一本美国文化、时尚和政治杂志，由康得纳斯出版公司出版。
最初的名利场出版于1913年，1935年后因为大萧条导致销量大幅下降而停刊。
我们现在知道的名利场封面是这样的：怎么有点斗鸡眼的意思?在停刊了50年后，这本杂志在1981年复刊，如今除美国本土外还在四个欧洲国家同步发行，常常刊出当红明星的肖像照、写真和合影，报道多为明星私生活，同时也包括新闻、评论、随笔等内容。
不过，我今天看到它在20世纪初的封面时，觉得这不是和《vogue》当时的封面差不多的吗？刚好是插画黄金时代，大波插画艺术家们展现才华的舞台！名利场由康得纳斯出版公司的创始人康得·纳斯创办。
最初杂志名为《服装》，是一本供男性观看的时尚杂志，1913年康得·纳斯将其名称改为《服装和名利场》Dress & Vanity Fair。
不久之后杂志改名为《名利场》Vanity Fair，并将其定位为一本以提供上流社会生活方式报道的杂志。
在主编弗兰克·克劳宁希尔德Frank Crowninshield 的努力之下，杂志很快就赢得了大众的青睐。
当时的美国民众许多为低收入移民，并不熟悉上流生活奢华的生活方式，对其神秘复杂的社交活动充满了兴趣。
1925年之后，名利场和同为康得纳斯出版公司旗下的《纽约客》一起，成为了美国最重要的文化杂志。
不过它所刊登广告的比例也颇高，这和其高昂的制作成本有关。
然而大萧条开始后，大企业无力支付广告费，广告收入骤减。
虽然1935年中的发行量达到了90000本的新高峰，名利场还是在同年12月宣布停刊，1936年起并入《时尚》杂志。
by George Wolfe PlankNovember 1918October 1923January 1926 Art Print by Stanley W. Reynolds现在这些百年前的杂志封面，在网上的印刷品售价都达到了100美元一份......Vanity Fair Cover - January 1925A Elegant Couple by Eduardo Garcia BenitoA Man And A Woman With A Dog by Eduardo Garcia BenitoVanity Fair Readers by Georges LepapeJune 1926Vanity Fair Cover Featuring A Man Fastening by Eduardo Garcia Benitoby Miguel Covarrubias.April 1922by Eduardo Garcia BenitoDecember 1926February 1930December 1924March 1920January 1918July 1915Vanity Fair Cover Flirting In Rowboat by A H FishA Magazine Cover For Vanity Fair Of A Woman by L. A. MorrisVanity Fair Cover Featuring A Woman Standing by Ethel PlummerDecember 1914by Frank X. Leyendecker。
The story opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where the principal protagonists Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in Russell Square. Becky is portrayed as a strong-willed and cunning young woman determined to make her way in society, and Amelia Sedley as a good-natured, loveable, though simple-minded young girl.At Russell Square, Miss Sharp is introduced to the dashing andself-obsessed Captain George Osborne (to whom Amelia has been betrothed from a very young age) and to Amelia's brother Joseph Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious but rich civil-servant fresh from the East India Company. Becky entices Sedley, hoping to marry him, but she fails because of warnings from Captain Osborne, Sedley's own native shyness, and his embarrassment over some foolish drunken behavior of his that Becky had witnessed at Vauxhall.With this, Becky Sharp says farewell to Sedley's family and enters the service of the crude and profligate baronet Sir Pitt Crawley, who has engaged her as a governess to his daughters. Her behaviour at Sir Pitt's house gains his favour, and after the premature death of his second wife, he proposes to her. However, he finds that she is already secretly married to his second son, Rawdon Crawley.Sir Pitt's elder half sister, the spinster Miss Crawley, is very rich, having inherited her mother's fortune of £70,000. How she will bequeath her great wealth is a source of constant conflict between the branches of the Crawley family who vie shamelessly for her affections; initially her favorite is Sir Pitt's younger son, Captain Rawdon Crawley. For some time, Becky acts as Miss Crawley's companion, supplanting the loyal Miss Briggs in an attempt to establish herself in favor before breaking the news of her elopement with Miss Crawley's nephew. However, the misalliance so enrages Miss Crawley that she disinherits her nephew in favour of his pompous and pedantic elder brother, who also bears the name Pitt Crawley. The married couple constantly attempt to reconcile with Miss Crawley, and she relents a little. However, she will only see her nephew and refuses to change her will.While Becky Sharp is rising in the world, Amelia's father, John Sedley, is bankrupted. The Sedleys and Osbornes were once close allies, but the relationship between the two families disintegrates after the Sedleys are financially ruined, and the marriage of Amelia and George is forbidden. George ultimately decides to marry Amelia against his father's will, primarily due to the pressure of his friend Dobbin, and George is consequently disinherited. While these personal events take place, the Napoleonic Wars have been ramping up. George Osborne and William Dobbin are suddenly deployed to Brussels, but not before an encounterwith Becky and Captain Crawley at Brighton. The holiday is interrupted by orders to march to Brussels. Already, the newly wedded Osborne is growing tired of Amelia, and he becomes increasingly attracted to Becky who encourages his advances.At a ball in Brussels (based on the Duchess of Richmond's famous ball on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo) George gives Becky a note inviting her to run away with him. He regrets this shortly afterwards and reconciles with Amelia, who has been deeply hurt by his attentions towards her former friend. The morning after, he is sent to Waterloo with Captain Crawley and Dobbin, leaving Amelia distraught. Becky, on the other hand, is virtually indifferent to her husband's departure. She tries to console Amelia, but Amelia responds angrily, disgusted by Becky's flirtatious behavior with George and her lack of concern about Captain Crawley. Becky resents this snub and a rift develops between the two women that lasts for years. Becky is not very concerned for the outcome of the war, either. Should Napoleon win, she plans to become the mistress of one his marshals, and meanwhile she makes a profit selling her carriage and horses at inflated prices to panicking Britons seeking to flee the city, where the Belgian population is openly pro-Napoleonic. Captain Crawley survives, but George dies in the battle. Amelia bears him a posthumous son, who is also named George. She returns to live ingenteel poverty with her parents. Meanwhile, since the death of George, Dobbin, who is young George's godfather, gradually begins to express his love for the widowed Amelia by small kindnesses toward her and her son. Most notable is the recovery of her old piano, which Dobbin picks up at an auction following the Sedleys' ruin. Amelia mistakenly assumes this was done by her late husband. She is too much in love with George's memory to return Dobbin's affections. Saddened, he goes to India for many years. Dobbin's infatuation with Amelia is a theme which unifies the novel and one which many have compared to Thackeray's unrequited love for a friend's wife。
