{"product_id":"marjory-fleming","title":"Marjory Fleming","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-caption alignright\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/Marjory_Fleming.jpg?v=1593032997\u0026amp;width=700\" width=\"490\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-caption-text\"\u003eWITH A PUBLISHER'S NOTE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e216pp\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 9781903155073\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarjory 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 original Dictionary of National Biography, believing that 'no more fascinating infantile author has ever appeared.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriel Malet, author of this biographical novel, was herself only 20, but had already published two books by the time \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarjory Fleming\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Tatler\u003c\/em\u003e) Oriel Malet takes us into the mind of a potential genius.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eThere could only be one fabric for Marjory: a shawl, that she might have been wrapped in when, apparently recovered from measles, she was carried downstairs by her father in December 1811. We have chosen a paisley that would have been made in either the Edinburgh or Paisley region in about 1810.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMarjory Fleming\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Oriel Malet","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098749522227,"sku":"rad1789694378380","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098749554995,"sku":"nck1789694378381","price":37.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098749587763,"sku":"gac1789694378382","price":39.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098749620531,"sku":"uug1789694378383","price":42.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/marjory-fleming_1.jpg?v=1789694384","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/marjory-fleming","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}