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{{Image|Book cover Venetia.jpg|right|200px|Front cover of the 2011 paperback edition of ''Venetia''.}} | {{Image|Book cover Venetia.jpg|right|200px|Front cover of the 2011 paperback edition of ''Venetia''.}} | ||
'''Venetia'''<ref name=Venetia /><ref name=OverDrive /> is a 1958 novel by [[Georgette Heyer]] that begins in 1818. Venetia, Conway and Aubrey Lanyon (26, 23, and 17 years old) are grown-up children who lost their mother at a young age, and whose father passed three years ago. While Conway, the estate heir, remains in military service, | '''Venetia'''<ref name=Venetia /><ref name=OverDrive /> is a 1958 novel by [[Georgette Heyer]] that begins in 1818. Venetia, Conway and Aubrey Lanyon (26, 23, and 17 years old) are grown-up children who lost their mother at a young age, and whose father passed three years ago. While Conway, the estate heir, remains in military service, Venetia is required to act as guardian to her younger brother Aubrey, who has a physical impairment preventing him from walking easily. The two siblings receive regular and unwanted visits by Venetia's two local suitors, Edward Yardley (a nearby landowner, 32 years old) and Oswald Denny (a local lord's 19-year-old son), neither of whom Venetia has any inclination to marry. While wandering about the estate unaccompanied, Venetia inadvertently goes over the property line and meets a long-absent neighbor, peaking his interest without the knowledge (or likely approval) of her friends and relations. | ||
See [[Georgette_Heyer/Works|other works by Georgette Heyer]]. | See [[Georgette_Heyer/Works|other works by Georgette Heyer]]. | ||
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Venetia[1][2] is a 1958 novel by Georgette Heyer that begins in 1818. Venetia, Conway and Aubrey Lanyon (26, 23, and 17 years old) are grown-up children who lost their mother at a young age, and whose father passed three years ago. While Conway, the estate heir, remains in military service, Venetia is required to act as guardian to her younger brother Aubrey, who has a physical impairment preventing him from walking easily. The two siblings receive regular and unwanted visits by Venetia's two local suitors, Edward Yardley (a nearby landowner, 32 years old) and Oswald Denny (a local lord's 19-year-old son), neither of whom Venetia has any inclination to marry. While wandering about the estate unaccompanied, Venetia inadvertently goes over the property line and meets a long-absent neighbor, peaking his interest without the knowledge (or likely approval) of her friends and relations.
See other works by Georgette Heyer.