Fanny was a domestic servant, the girl who had been helping Mrs Jackson at Holly Howe. They give her a dispatch for Nancy, which she will leave at the Doctor's place for him to leave with Nancy .... (WH13). She was lending Mrs Jackson a hand while the farm-house was full of visitors .... (and) who had given the explorers their supper, tidied up and gone home to her mother (WH18).
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