by M. F." and "The Life of the King Jamess", dealing briefly with the first five Scottish kings of that name. "Marjorie" is a spelling popularized by her later editors. "Marjory" was the spelling used by the Fleming family. Her familiar names included Madgie, Maidie, Muff and Muffy, but Pet is not recorded before the appearance of Farnie's account of her. Nonetheless, "'Pet Marjorie' is now carved on her (modern) tombstone in Abbotshall Kirkyard at Kirkcaldy." Marjorie's life and the legend that formed around her writings is analysed in the first chapter of Alexandra Johnson's The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life''. Johnson says that as Marjorie continued to write under the tutelage of her cousin, she "discovered that every writer has a critic shadowing her shoulder. The drama of her journals is watching who won." Fleming was also the subject of a fictionalized biography by Oriel Malet. References External links Trivia Library biography A sketch of Marjorie by Isabella Keith: Retrieved 21 February 2012. A picture of the 1930 monument in Abbotshall Kirkyard, with a close-up of the inscription: Retrieved 21 February 2012 Plaques to Marjorie in Kirkaldy: Retrieved 21 February 2012 National Library of Scotland. Marjory Fleming Papers (MSS.1096-1100) National Library of Scotland. Marjory Fleming Papers digital scholarship dataset Transkribus Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) edition of Marjory Fleming 1803 births 1811 deaths British child writers Deaths from meningitis Scottish diarists Scottish women poets Scottish women writers Women diarists People from Kirkcaldy 19th-century Scottish poets 19th-century British women writers 19th-century British writers 19th-century diarists Neurological disease deaths in Scotland Infectious disease deaths in Scotland Child deaths