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William Makepeace Thackeray, detail of an oil painting by Samuel Laurence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
In the novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the character Amelia Sedley marries twice.1
Her first husband is George Osborne, who is killed at the Battle of Waterloo. Following his death and the subsequent events of the story, Amelia eventually marries her lifelong admirer, Captain William Dobbin.1