# Peggy — The Venetians character guide

> Peggy in The Venetians by M. E. Braddon.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Madam Peggy, dear Miss Peggy, Miss Peggy, Dear young Peggy, Poor little Peggy, Poor Peggy, poor Peggy, Peg, Miss Margaret

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

## Snapshot

A young Marchant sister whose small presence and chapter of 'chance' mark her as a thread of hope and vulnerability in the family's precarious fortunes.

## Who they are

Peggy is the youngest-seeming of the Marchant sisters, addressed with the affectionate diminutives — dear Miss Peggy, poor little Peggy — that signal both fondness and fragility. She lives inside the same shabby household as Eve, subject to the same father and the same social disadvantage, but with less of her sister's defiant frankness to shield her. Her fate and her small chances matter because they measure what the Marchant sisters stand to gain or lose from Eve's marriage.

## Relationships

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

_friendship_

Peggy is a loyal companion to Eve, offering a sense of normalcy and comfort in Eve's turbulent life.

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

_friendship_

Peggy is a loyal companion to Eve, offering a sense of normalcy and comfort in Eve's turbulent life.

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

_friendship_

Peggy is a loyal companion to Eve, offering a sense of normalcy and comfort in Eve's turbulent life.

## In the story

### [Teatime in Arcadia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_venetians_se/chapters/v-teatime-in-arcadia)

The youngest Marchant sister, she is speechless with laughter at the idea of a dinnerless household.

### [He Would Take His Time](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_venetians_se/chapters/vii-he-would-take-his-time)

Bluntly warns Vansittart that he won't like her father, showing her candid nature.

### [XVII: “She Was More Fair Than Words Can Say”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_venetians_se/chapters/xvii-she-was-more-fair-than-words-can-say)

Peggy is curious about the gift and joins Hetty in speculating about its sender, showing her youthful enthusiasm.

### [The Shadow Passeth When the Tree Shall Fall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_venetians_se/chapters/xviii-the-shadow-passeth-when-the-tree-shall-fall)

Eve's younger sister, reported ill with a persistent cough, feared to be consumption.

### [XX: Peggy’s Chance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_venetians_se/chapters/xx-peggy-s-chance)

Peggy is the ailing sister, whose only chance of survival is the southern climate. She is joyful about the trip but her condition is serious, and her death is foreshadowed.

### [From the Evil to Come](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_venetians_se/chapters/xxi-from-the-evil-to-come)

Eve's deceased daughter, whose grave Eve visits and whose memory haunts her.

### [A Scene of Light and Glory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_venetians_se/chapters/xxxii-a-scene-of-light-and-glory)

Mentioned as the one in whom the fatal strain developed early, setting a precedent for Eve's own illness.

## Links

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