# Miss Nancy — Iola Leroy character guide

> Miss Nancy in Iola Leroy by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0005-iii-uncle-daniel-s-story

## Who they are

Elderly former slave who helps care for Iola as a child.

## In the story

### [Mystery of Market Speech and Prayer-Meeting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/iola_leroy_se/chapters/i-mystery-of-market-speech-and-prayer-meeting)

The mistress of the household; she prays for Confederate victory and tries to frighten the enslaved people with stories about Yankees, but her mood reveals the war's progress.

### [XVIII: Searching for Lost Ones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/iola_leroy_se/chapters/xviii-searching-for-lost-ones)

Robert's former mistress; aged and sorrowful; initially awkward about addressing Robert as an equal but warms to him under the old name 'Robby'.

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