Who is Fanny Price from Of Human Bondage and what is their importance?

Fanny Price is an art student, who Philip meets while studying in France. She is described as an unpleasant woman, but Philip strikes up a friendship because he he feels sorry for her. Philip, however, soon grows tired of her unpleasant ways, and also comes to realize that she isn't a very good artist, so he begins to avoid Fanny and hang out with other friends. One day, Philip gets a letter from Fanny asking him to come see her. When he arrives, he discovers that Fanny has hung herself. In focusing of his own needs, he never realized that Fanny was, in fact, a desperate, poverty stricken woman.