# Miss Marchant — The Venetians character guide

> Miss Marchant in The Venetians by M. E. Braddon.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Marchant, that Miss Marchant, waylay Miss Marchant

**First appearance:** 0000-i-in-the-city-by-the-sea

## Snapshot

The bright, frank, penniless Marchant sister whose betrothal to a wealthy man sets every drawing-room tongue wagging about heredity and bad blood.

## Who they are

Miss Marchant — Eve — is the sister Vansittart chooses against all worldly advice, a girl 'simple and straightforward, never affecting to be rich when she was poor.' Her betrothal to a man of three or four thousand a year is the scandal of his family: his sister Maud sighs over 'four sisters and an impossible father,' and his mother broods on the bad strain that must surely show. The early-middle arc turns on whether Eve's own worth can survive the weight of her relations, and on the quiet, ominous cough that Benson hears with Peggy's fate in mind.

## Relationships

### [Eve Marchant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_venetians_se/characters/eve_marchant)

_family_

Miss Marchant is an aunt or older relative who acts as a moral guardian, often critical of Eve's choices.

### [Eve Marchant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_venetians_se/characters/eve_marchant)

_family_

Miss Marchant is an aunt or older relative who acts as a moral guardian, often critical of Eve's choices.

### [Eve Marchant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_venetians_se/characters/eve_marchant)

_family_

Miss Marchant is an aunt or older relative who acts as a moral guardian, often critical of Eve's choices.

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