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Brilliance of 'World's Child' will come alive at storytelling event
From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20051020
Author:Katie Emslie
HER literary talents are said to have inspired authors Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain, even though her only work was penned before she turned nine.
Marjory Fleming was hailed as a child prodigy for her poetry and journals, but her talent was never allowed to develop fully as she died just before her ninth birthday after a bout of measles in 1811.
She became an icon of Victorian times, but she is largely forgotten in the present day.
Now the tale of her extraordinary accomplishments is to be resurrected for the opening day of the Scottish Storytelling Festival tomorrow.
Her story is ...
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