Marjorie Fleming

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.

Quotes

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

• An annibabtist is a thing I am not a member of
  • 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

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Marjorie Fleming on Wikipedia
• "Marjory Fleming – MSS.1096-1100", National Library of Scotland