Marjorie Fleming's Book - The Story of Pet Marjorie MARJORIE FLEMINGS BOOK THE STORY OF PET MARJORIE TOGETHER WITH HER JOURNALS AND HER LETTERS B7L. MAcBEAN TO WHICH IS ADDED MARJORIE FLEMING A STORY OF CHILD-LIFE FIFTY YEARS AGO BY JOHN BROWN, MJD. INTRODUCTION BY CLIFFORD SMYTH ILLUSTRATED OF, s, -i- Tf rtf W s ftf-, . fcrv, p. M t BONI AND LIVERIGHT PUBLISHERS .. .. NEW iYORK MARJORIE FLEMINGS BOOK Copyright, 1920, by BONI LlVERIGHT, INC. Printed in the United States of America Marjorie and Sir Walter Scott. From the title-page of Farnies Pet Marjorie. CONTENTS PAGE Introduction by Clifford Smyth . ix Marjorie Flemings Book by L. MacBean . . I Marjorie Fleming by John Brown, M. D., . J . 173 ILLUSTRATIONS Marjorie and Sir Walter Scott . . . Frontispiece PAGE Map Showing Location of Raith 3 Marjorie s Birthplace 7 One of Marjories Books 19 Specimen Page of Manuscript 25 Genealogies of the Families of Marjorie Fleming and Sir Walter Scott 240 INTRODUCTION YOU will surely love her you cant help it. If you are a woman, all the yearn ings of motherhood will draw you to her irresistibly. If you are a man, her innocent coquetries, her feminine graces will have you captive in less than half an hour, just as happened to her famous lover a century ago. For romance is as potent to-day as it was then and it was the innate romance of Marjories personality that appealed to Sir Walter, just as it is bound to appeal to those men and women of the twentieth century who are fortunate enough to read her book. This personality of hers is, indeed, the real secret of Marjorie Flemings assured place in our hearts. Had she been merely a precocious child who wrote verses that scanned and rhymed, that were distin guished by some flavor of originality, couchedin words unfamiliar to normal childhood, her memory would not have xi xii INTRODUCTION gone beyond the pages of some dry-as-dust chronicle of literary curiosities. Precocity is interesting to the parents of the unfortu nate child who is afflicted with it to the stran [...] Autor: L. Macbean Wydawnictwo: Barlow Press Rok wydania: 2007 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 252 Wymiary: 21.6 x 14.0 x 1.7 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9781406733846