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Marjorie Fleming (also spelt Marjory; 15 January 1803 – 19 December 1811) was a Scottish child writer and poet. ==Life== Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland on 15 January 1803, Marjorie was the third child of the Kirkcaldy accountant James Fleming (died c. 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). Her uncle Thomas Fleming was minister of Kirkaldy parish church. Her mother's relations were acquainted in Edinburgh with the young Walter Scott.〔Frank Sidgwick's introduction to ''The Complete Marjory Fleming, her Journals, Letters & Verses'' (London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1934), p. xiii. This was re-edited and reissued in 1999 as ''Marjory's Book''. ISBN 1-873644-96-5.〕 Marjorie spent most of her sixth, seventh and eighth years in Edinburgh under the tutelage of a cousin, Isabella Keith, who was about 17.〔Isabella married in 1824 James Wilson (1795–1856), the zoologist brother of the writer "Christopher North", and had two children. She died in 1837. ''The Complete...'', p. xvi.〕 Journal 1〔The order of the three copybooks established by Arundell Esdaile for the 1934 facsimile edition and followed by Sidgwick, is the reverse of the one found in earlier editions. The original orthography is retained here.〕 begins with a somewhat startling, laconic tribute to Isabella Keith: "Many people are hanged for Highway robbery Housebreking Murder &c. &c. Isabella teaches me everything I know and I am much indebted to her she is learnen witty & sensible." 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..."〔''The Complete...'', Letter 5, p. 166.〕 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. She was a month short of her ninth birthday.〔''The Complete...'', p. xv.〕 The monument marking her grave, south of the old parish church in Kirkcaldy, was not erected until 1930. It was designed by Pilkington Jackson.〔Papers of the late Charles D'Orville (Pilkington Jackson) NLS 7445〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marjorie Fleming」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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