The manuscripts of her writings are now kept in the National Library of Scotland. (A notable published example from a generation later is that of the English girl Emily Pepys.) Diary keeping by children was encouraged in the United Kingdom throughout the 19th century. Marjorie is best remembered for her poems and a diary that she kept for the last 18 months of her life. The monument marking her grave, south of the old parish church in Kirkcaldy, was not erected until 1930. She was a month short of her ninth birthday. Marjorie returned to Kirkcaldy in July 1811, but wrote on 1 September in a letter to Isabella Keith, "We are surrounded with measles at present on every side." She herself contracted measles in November and apparently recovered, but then died, of what was described as "water on the head" and is now considered to have been meningitis, on 19 December 1811. The diary includes a wide variety of observations: "The Monkey gets as many visitors as I or my cousins." "I like to here my own sex praised but not the other." "I never read Sermons of any kind but I read Novelettes and my bible."
Isabella teaches me everything I know and I am much indebted to her she is learnen witty & sensible."
Her copybooks begin with a somewhat startling, laconic tribute to Isabella Keith: "Many people are hanged for Highway robbery Housebreking Murder &c. Marjorie spent most of her sixth, seventh and eighth years in Edinburgh under the tutelage of a cousin, Isabella Keith, who was about 17. Her mother's relations were acquainted in Edinburgh with the young Walter Scott. Her uncle Thomas Fleming was minister of Kirkcaldy parish church. 1840) and his wife Isabella (daughter of James Rae), also the name of her elder sister and of her cousin and friend Miss Crauford (variously spelled). She gained appreciation from Robert Louis Stevenson, Leslie Stephen, Mark Twain and possibly Walter Scott.īorn in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland on 15 January 1803, Marjorie was the third child of the Kirkcaldy accountant James Fleming (died c. Marjorie spent most of her sixth, seventh and eighth years in Edinburgh under the tutelage of a cousi Marjorie Fleming (also spelt Marjory 15 January 1803 – 19 December 1811) was a Scottish child writer and poet. Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland on 15 January 1803, Marjorie was the third child of the Kirkcaldy accountant James Fleming (died c.
She gained appreciation from Robert Louis Stevenson, Leslie Stephen, Mark Twain and possibly Walter Scott. Marjorie Fleming (also spelt Marjory 15 January 1803 – 19 December 1811) was a Scottish child writer and poet.
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