Rosamond Venning

Rosamond Venning
Born1848 (1848)
Clapham, Surrey, UK
Died9 July 1928(1928-07-09) (aged 79–80)
Buckinghamshire, UK
Other namesRosamund Venning, Rose Venning
OccupationsArt collector, folklorist
PartnerKathleen Trousdell Shaw

Rosamond Jane Venning (1848 – 9 July 1928), also seen as Rosamund Venning, was a British folklorist, translator, and art collector. She translated works by Tolstoy into English, studied in Athens, campaigned for women's suffrage, and wrote about Cornish burial practices and Russian art.

Biography

Rosamond Jane Venning was born in Clapham, Surrey, the daughter of Samuel Blackaller Venning and Emma Jane Marshall Venning. Her father, a merchant, died by suicide in the year she was born.[1] Her maternal grandfather John Marshall was a bank president in South Africa.[2] Her uncle Francis Ord Marshall was a landowner in Java.[3] Her brother William Marshall Venning was a lawyer interested in women's rights under Roman law.[4][5]

Rosamond Venning stayed at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens while she was touring in the 1880s.[6] She and Hannah Lynch met in Greece and traveled together; Lynch dedicated her 1891 study of novelist George Meredith to Venning.[7] Her close friend Kathleen Trousdell Shaw made a portrait bas-relief sculpture of Venning in 1892.[8] Venning supported the cause of women's suffrage.[9] She was an honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.[10]

Venning supported the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).[11] She adopted he longtime friend Kathleen Trousdell Shaw, and the two lived together in London and in Buckinghamshire. Venning died in 1928, and left her estate to Shaw.[12]

Publications

  • Tolstoy, "The Pilgrims" (1887, translated by Venning from Russian)[13][14]
  • "A Russian Sculptor" (1889)[15]
  • Tolstoy, The Archbishop and the Three Old Men (1893; translated by Venning from Russian)[16]
  • "Burial of teeth with body in Cornwall" (1894)[17]
  • "Yanni: An Athenian Model" (1898)[18]

References

  1. ^ "Suicide of a Merchant". Sunday Dispatch. 1848-05-14. p. 1. Retrieved 2025-10-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Married". South African Commercial Advertiser, via eGGSA Library. 3 October 1835. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
  3. ^ The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review Devoted to the Study of Early Pagan and Christian Antiquities of Great Britain. J. R. Smith. 1881. p. 247.
  4. ^ Venning, William Marshall (1881). Marriage and the Condition of Married Women Under the Roman Law: Being a Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law. A.T. Shrimpton & son.
  5. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1905). Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour. T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 1400.
  6. ^ American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1888). Annual Report. p. 27.
  7. ^ Lynch, Hannah. George Meredith. Ardent Media.
  8. ^ 'Miss Rosamond Venning', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011; accessed 2 February 2023
  9. ^ Rosamund Venning to Miss Palliser, 26 Jan 1907. Autograph Letter Collection: Women's Suffrage. Women's Library Archives.
  10. ^ The Journal of Hellenic Studies. Cambridge University Press. 1891. pp. xxviii.
  11. ^ Tara Morton, "Redrawing Boundaries: Suffrage Artists, Spatiality, Gender, and Power" (Ph.D. thesis, University of Warwick, 2023): 98.
  12. ^ Stiles, H. Dominic W. (26 April 2019). "Kathleen Trousdell Shaw, sculptor (1865-1958)" UCL Ear Institute & Action on Hearing Loss Libraries blog post.
  13. ^ Berman, Ruth (April 1996). "Fantasy Fiction and Fantasy Criticism in Some Nineteenth-Century Periodicals". Extrapolation. 37 (1): 83. doi:10.3828/extr.1996.37.1.63. ISSN 0014-5483.
  14. ^ Tolstoi, Leo (April 1887). "The Pilgrims". Temple Bar. Rose Venning (translator): 523–543.
  15. ^ Venning, Rosamond (1889). "A Russian Sculptor". The Art Journal (London): 103–107.
  16. ^ "The Archbishop and the Three Old Men". The Daily Telegraph. 1893-03-08. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-10-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Venning, Rosamond (1894). "Burial of Teeth with Body in Cornwall". Folklore. 5 (4): 343–343. ISSN 0015-587X.
  18. ^ Venning, Rosamond (June 18, 1898). "Yanni: An Athenian Model". Literature. 2: 701–702.
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