Marjory Fleming (1803-1811)

Majory Fleming (1803-1811) was a Scottish child author, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, who became posthumously famous for her free-thinking and precocious diaries. Written mainly in Edinburgh and the holiday retreats of Ravelston and Braehead, they provide an authoritative record of Marjory’s life, schoolwork, and passing. The attention given to these diaries in the later Victorian period saw her fêted by men of letters, and embedded in the public consciousness. The pages transcribed here form a portfolio of three volumes of Marjory’s diary (1810-1811), which were presented to the National Library of Scotland in 1930, and are a key source for those seeking a situational history of early 19th century Scotland.