# Fanny — Suspiria de Profundis character guide

> Fanny in Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Miss Fanny, herself

**First appearance:** 0003-the-affliction-of-childhood

## Snapshot

A childhood intimate whose early affection lodges so deep in the narrator's memory that her loss becomes one of the griefs his dreams refuse to release.

## Who they are

She belongs to the small, tender circle of the narrator's earliest attachments, the world of gentle sisters and country solitude that precedes all his sorrows. The bond is charged with the vulnerability of childhood love—affection felt before the heart has any armor against separation or death. Her presence in the early arc establishes the emotional baseline against which the later, grander sorrows are measured, showing that the smallest losses leave the deepest grooves.

## Relationships

### [Grandpapa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/characters/grandpapa)

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Fanny is the granddaughter of Grandpapa, sharing a tender familial bond with the elderly man.

## In the story

### [Memorial Suspiria](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/chapters/memorial-suspiria)

The young woman betrayed by her lover; she suffers in silence and eventually dies, her face regaining a childlike peace.

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