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The Question and Answer section for Venus is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Sarah Baartman is the main character.
Mother Showman serves as one of the novel's antagonists. He is a manipulative, side-show owner, who takes advantage of his workers' afflictions. He considers the workers his property.
Baron Docteur is also...
Sarah (Venus) suffers from Steatopygia, which means that she has curves that defy nature and that also defy the rest of her body. She quickly becomes extremely popular in the sideshow, as Europeans travel to see her genitalia and voluptuous...
Sarah contracts gonorrhea from the Baron Docteur, who is furious, and arranges for her to be jailed for the rest of her life. She dies soon, in her jail cell.
