Francis "Fanny" Blood was Mary's childhood friend. At one point in her life, Mary even lived with the Blood family. Fanny eventually got married to Hugh Skeyes and moved to Portugal. Mary tried to follow her friend there to take care of her, as she was never in good health, but Fanny ended up passing away in childbirth anyway. This destroyed Mary and her death was a part of her inspiration for her novel, Mary: A Fiction.
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