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Marjorie Fleming

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Marjorie Fleming (also spelt Marjory; 15 January 1803 – 19 December 1811) was a Scottish child writer and poet. She gained appreciation from Robert Louis Stevenson, Leslie Stephen, and possibly Walter Scott.

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The Complete Marjory Fleming, her Journals, Letters & Verses, ed. Frank Sidgwick (London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1934)
  • A direful death indeed they had
    That would put any parent mad
    But she was more than usual calm
    She did not give a singel dam.
    • Journal
  • The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.
    • Journal
  • To-day I pronounced a word which should never come out of a lady’s lips it was that I called John a Impudent Bitch.
    • Journal
  • I am going to turn over a new life and am going to be a very good girl and be obedient to Isa Keith, here there is plenty of gooseberries which makes my teeth watter.
    • Journal
  • I hope I will be religious again but as for regaining my character I despare.
    • Journal
  • Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.
    • Journal
  • My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me.
    • Letters, "To Isabella"
  • O lovely O most charming pug
    Thy graceful air and heavenly mug ...
    His noses cast is of the roman
    He is a very pretty weoman
    I could not get a rhyme for roman
    And was oblidged to call it weoman.
    • Poems
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