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Venetia is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer set in England in 1818.
Venetia is a minor novel by Benjamin Disraeli, published in 1837, the year he was first elected to the House of Commons.
The novel is a lightweight romantic fantasy. A contemporary reviewer, writing in an 1854 issue of the New Monthly Review, declared that he “liked it least of all Disraeli’s works.”
Lord Byron and Shelley figure in its pages, under different names and different worldly circumstances from those in which they actually lived. We do not consider either portrait well drawn, and that of Shelley especially defective; but still Venetia, like all that Disraeli has written, contains much that is vivid and beautiful, and will be read with interest and delight by every man of taste.Michael Flavin’s Benjamin Disraeli: The Novel as a Political Discourse suggests that Venetia was largely a commercial endeavour for Disraeli, who was deep in debt at the time that he wrote it.
In Byron and the Victorians, Andrew Elfenbein discusses Venetia in terms of Disraeli's presenting himself as "the moral, political and literary successor to Byron, by manipulating the representation of Byron's sexuality", making him straight instead of bisexual and portraying him as having steady but distant male friendships. He says the novel can best be described as "kooky" because of its confused and confusing portrayals of both Byron and Shelley, giving each traits and life circumstances actually possessed by the other.
Venetia is a feminine English given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Venetia Burney (1919-2009), the girl who named the planet Pluto
- Venetia Dearden, English photographer
- Venetia Kapernekas, Greek businesswoman
- Venetia Stanley (1600-1633), Elizabethan Catholic and wife of Kenelm Digby
- Venetia Stanley (1887–1948), British aristocrat and socialite remembered for her 1910-15 correspondence with Prime Minister Herbert Asquith
- Venetia Stevenson (born 1938), English-American actress
- Venetia Williams (born 1960), British racehorse trainer
Usage examples of "venetia".
Nurse stripped off her wet habit, and huddled her into a dressing-gown, and made her sit by the fire, while she herself bustled about, first trotting off to mix a cordial, which she made Venetia drink, then rubbing her chilled feet, tidying the room, laying out an evening-gown, and all the time talking, talking, but never waiting for answers, and only looking at Venetia out of the corners of her sharp old eyes.
What has happened since I saw you last, Venetia, to overset you, and make you regard your removal from this place as a matter of sudden urgency?
Baghdad, Victoria would be Venetia Thingummy, keeping her end up as best she could.
Miss Venetia Hart, that was, and her sister, Miss Fran, they had christened him Bunsen, and she did believe that Mr.
But Venetia was crawling around on the bed, derriere wiggling, as she gathered up the ropes.
The western-most portion of the plain was peopled by Ligurian tribes, and was therefore called LIGURIA, while its eastern extremity formed the Roman province of VENETIA.
In Venetia the peasants keep over from the vintage a few grapes to form part of their Martinmas supper, and as far south as Sicily it is considered essential to taste the new wine at this festival.
I collapse in slight posttraumatic shock and Venetia starts feeling my abdomen.
From the Savus riverhead in Noricum Mediterraneum, the families came overland, in trains of wagons furnished by the army quartermasters, through Venetia and on to their several destinations.
They were paler-skinned and bigger in stature than their Celtic-cousin Veneti we had encountered in Venetia, and, no doubt because these lived closer to Rome, they spoke Latin much more correctly.
Neither Venetia nor Aubrey had been farther from Undershaw than Scarborough, and their acquaintance was limited to the few families living within reach of the Manor.
Neither repined, Aubrey because he shrank from going amongst strangers, Venetia because it was not in her nature to do so.
Biblical turn of the conversation that her guardian was strongly moved, Venetia applied herself for the next twenty minutes to the task of soothing her agitation, pointing out to her that they had more reason to liken Damerel to the Good Samaritan than to the wicked, and coaxing her to accept her own determination to go to Aubrey as something as harmless as it was inevitable.
She was representing to Venetia in persuasive terms how unnecessary it was for her to remain at the Priory another instant when Aubrey woke up, rather cross, and complaining that he was hot, thirsty, and uncomfortable.
It came, therefore, as a surprise to Venetia, serenely filling her basket with his blackberries, when she discovered that he was much nearer at hand than anyone had supposed.