# Lady Bareacres — Vanity Fair character guide

> Lady Bareacres in Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the Lady Bareacres, Bareacres, the frigid old Bareacres

**First appearance:** 0029-xxix-brussels

## Who they are

Proud, cold-hearted aristocrat who snubs Becky but later needs her help in Brussels.

## In the story

### [In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/xxviii-in-which-amelia-invades-the-low-countries)

Attends George's dinner but treats Amelia with cold disdain.

### [In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/xxxii-in-which-jos-takes-flight-and-the-war-is-brought-to-a-close)

Humiliated by Rebecca's public taunts about her inability to secure horses and her diamonds sewn into carriage cushions.

### [In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/xlix-in-which-we-enjoy-three-courses-and-a-dessert)

Lady Bareacres is humiliated by Becky's reminder of her past desperation for horses at Brussels, and is now financially ruined.

### [LXII: Am Rhein](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vanity_fair_se/chapters/lxii-am-rhein)

Part of the Bareacres family on the steamboat, sitting near the wheel.

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