Who is Fanny in the novel, The Kitchen House?

Fanny is Mama Mae’s daughter and the twin sister of Beattie. Fanny is not as pretty as Beattie and tends to be rougher. Fanny does not like her position on Tall Oaks as a house servant at first. However, when Mama Mae tells her the story of her own family, Fanny learns to work hard and stay quiet. Fanny becomes a devoted servant who is the captain’s favorite nurse late in his life and later becomes a devoted nanny to Lavinia’s daughter, Elly. Fanny was once Lavinia’s good friend, but becomes annoyed with her when she faces her dark marriage with laudanum. However, in the end, Lavinia frees Fanny after Marshall’s death.