Amelia Russell Square
The two girls
Leaving school together, the meek, well-off Amelia Sedley brings the sharp, portionless Becky home to Russell Square, where Becky at once sets her cap at Amelia's rich, foolish brother Jos. Thackeray opens on the contrast that runs through the book, the good girl who will be ill-used for her devotion and the adventuress who will prosper by having none.
The opening chapters
explicit The Sedley family home in Russell Square, a real Bloomsbury address, is where the story begins as Becky visits her schoolfellow Amelia; sited there.
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