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Marjory Fleming (Paperback)

by Oriel Malet (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd; New edition edition (22 Jun 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 190315507X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903155073
  • Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 13.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 368,864 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A novel based on fact about the child prodigy who lived in Scotland from 1803-11.


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Marjory Fleming (1803-11), an extraordinary child prodigy, 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 Dictionary of National Biography, believing that ‘no more fascinating infantile author has ever appeared.' 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. There are clear similarities between her and her precocious subject. 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’. 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 Paris publishing house Editions Autrement brought out Marjory Fleming in a French translation in the autumn of 2002.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A famous prodigy, 14 Nov 2001
By Lynette Baines (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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Marjory Fleming was a child prodigy who lived in Scotland in the early years of the nineteenth century. She wrote poetry and kept a journal, and died at the age of eight. Oriel Malet has written a fictional biography of Marjory, incorporating Marjory's own words which add poignancy and authenticity to the story. Malet was herself only twenty when she wrote this book (first published in 1946) and her achievement is enhanced by her intimate knowledge of childhood. As a character, Marjory could have been insufferably precocious. She isn't, she is recognisably a child, often wilful and naughty, yet she has great gifts. We enter into her world, and see what Marjory sees. Marjory leaves her family in Kirkcaldy when she is five to live with her cousins in Edinburgh. She is devoted to her older cousin, Isabella, and Marjory's talents are given freedom to grow in this atmosphere of love and acceptance. This fascinating novel introduces the reader to an unusual child whose story is worth knowing.
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