Her status as prodigy was boosted by an embellished 1863 account of her short life.

Their later publication made her a subject of Victorian adoration.

Marjory's writings reveal a literary child of strong opinions who wrote with great charm. Also a small portrait, and some letters of her mother and cousin (1811-1812). Marjorys Book: The Complete Journals, Letters and Poems of a Young Girl. The handwritten diary, letters and poems of Kirkcaldy-born Marjory Fleming, who died in Edinburgh in 1811, aged 8. To find similar items, select the checkboxes next to the characteristics you are interested in, then select the 'Find similar' button. There are some textual corrections by Marjory's cousin and occasional tutor, Isabella Keith. Three small volumes containing Marjory Fleming's diary, circa 1810-1811.

UK postage is free when you purchase 3 items or more and you'll earn a stamp for every £1 spent when you join our loyalty scheme.Context Marjory Fleming > Diary of Marjory Fleming > Volume 1 > (1) Folio 1 recto The Paris publishing house Editions Autrement brought out Marjory Fleming in a French translation in 2002. With 'true, almost psychic perception' (Elizabeth Bowen in a 1946 review in The Tatler) Oriel Malet takes us into the mind of a potential genius. The second, The Darkness and the Deep, was published in July 2006, and there are now six books in the DI Fleming series. The book describes Marjory's life over the three years when she leaves the family home at Kirkcaldy and goes to live in Edinburgh with her cousin Isabella, who recognised, and wished to encourage, her exceptional gifts and her final year when she had returned home and was deeply unhappy away from her beloved 'Isa'. After writing seven stand-alone books, she started a series set in Galloway and featuring DI Marjory Fleming, the first of which Cold In The Earth was an Ottakar's Crime Novel of the Month and an Independent Best Summer Read. There are clear similarities between her and her precocious subject. Oriel Malet, author of this biographical novel, was herself only 20, but had already published two books by the time Marjory Fleming was published in 1946, and had won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize for one of them. Marjorys lively personality shines through her musings, giving a fascinating insight into the lives of children at the time.

Marjory Fleming (1803-11), an extraordinary child, left poems, letters and a journal that are now one of the treasures of the National Library of Scotland and in 1889 Sir Leslie Stephen,Virginia Woolf's father, wrote an entry about her for the original Dictionary of National Biography, believing that 'no more fascinating infantile author has ever appeared.' As the series starts with Cold in the Earth, Marjory, who has always lived in the area, whose friends are all in the farming community, finds herself for the. This is a preloved book in good condition.Ī novel based on fact about the child prodigy who lived in Scotland from 1803-11.

Marjory's Book by Marjory Fleming