In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Vanity Fair is one of the dangerous places through which Christian journeyed on his pilgrimage to Zion; a fair wherein were displayed all the worldly vanities for tempting him from his way. It has been suggested that Bunyan wrote from recollections of the great annual fair at Stourbridge, near Cambridge.
Vanity Fair was a novel written by W. M Thackeray, in 1848. The author's most characteristic work in the more serious satiric vein, it presents a group of selfish people, living, in his own phrase, without God in the world. Social pretence, snobbery, meanness, chicanery are typified, and held up to reprobation in the astounding gallery of firmly drawn characters presented in this novel of English life during the first half of the 19th century.
Vanity Fair was the first society journal. It was founded in 1868 by Thomas Gibson Bowles and illustrated by Grebville Murray. Vanity Fair was popular for its caricatures of the political and social notabilities of the day. Research Vanity Fair
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