Fenella, a fairy-like attendant of the Countess of Derby, deaf and dumb, in Scott's “Peveril of the Peak,” a character suggested by Goethe's Mignon in “Wilhelm Meister.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Femmes Savantes * Fénélon, François de Salignac de la Mothe