 In 1872 "The Spectator" reviewed Anthony Trollope's "The Eustace Diamonds" and made an unfavourable comparison between Trollope's main female lead, Lady Eustace, and Becky Sharp.The reviewer wrote how "we had supposed that in Lady Eustace we were to have Mr Trollope's equivalent for Thackeray's Becky Sharp, but we hardly think that we have got it; or if we have, Mr Trollope's equivalent for Thackeray's Becky Sharp is but a poor one.