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Venetia (Disraeli novel)
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Venetia is a minor novel by Benjamin Disraeli, published in 1837, the year he was first elected to the House of Commons
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The novel traces the eponymous heroine’s development from romantic idealist into social pragmatist against a backdrop of British industrialisation
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A contemporary reviewer, writing in an 1854 issue of the New Monthly Review, declared that he “liked it least of all Disraeli’s works.”
Michael Flavin’s Benjamin Disraeli: The Novel as a Political Discourse suggests that Venetia was a largely commercial endeavour for Disraeli, who was deeply in debt at the time that he wrote it.
British House of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...
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The novel traces the eponymous heroine’s development from romantic idealist into social pragmatist against a backdrop of British industrialisation
Industrial Revolution
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A contemporary reviewer, writing in an 1854 issue of the New Monthly Review, declared that he “liked it least of all Disraeli’s works.”
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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 a largely commercial endeavour for Disraeli, who was deeply in debt at the time that he wrote it.