MARJORY FLEMING: The Youngest Genius

by Robert Van Gelder ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 7, 1940

This may create some confusion in readers' minds, unless they are familiar with Marjory Fleming's original Journals. Those Journals are much better known through praise of them sung by Sir Walter Scott, by Stevenson, and Swinburne and Dr. John Brown and Mark Twain than by actual familiarity with the substance of the Journals themselves. Robert Van Gelder has taken Marjory out of her own setting, seen her as a fascinating, stormy, vivid personality and made her the heroine of a story of his own, which might have taken place, since such things happened in those days of the early 19th century, when England and Scotland and France were still at daggers drawn. Much of the material from the diary is brought, quite naturally, into his story. It should create interest in the source from which he has taken his child heroine.

Pub Date: March 7, 1940

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Dodd, Mead

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1940

Categories: NONFICTION