Nan is a maid and one of Pamela’s only friends during her early days of imprisonment at Mr. B’s Lincolnshire estate. At one point, Mr. B forces Nan to sleep in bed with Pamela and Mrs. Jewkes to make sure Pamela won’t escape. Nan has a tendency to drink too much, and Mrs. Jewkes and Mr. B exploit this, tricking Nan into drinking herself into a stupor so that Mr. B can impersonate her and surprise Pamela in bed one night.
Nan Quotes in Pamela
The Pamela quotes below are all either spoken by Nan or refer to Nan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Journal
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Your poor Pamela cannot answer for the Liberties taken with her in her deplorable State of Death.
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IF, my dear Parents, I am not destin’d more surely than ever for Ruin, I have now more Comfort before me, than ever I yet knew. And am either nearer my Happiness or my Misery than ever I was.
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Nan Quotes in Pamela
The Pamela quotes below are all either spoken by Nan or refer to Nan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
The Journal
Quotes
Your poor Pamela cannot answer for the Liberties taken with her in her deplorable State of Death.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
IF, my dear Parents, I am not destin’d more surely than ever for Ruin, I have now more Comfort before me, than ever I yet knew. And am either nearer my Happiness or my Misery than ever I was.
