A Mad Marriage
By May Agnes Fleming
I had grave doubts about her and her story, but beggars must not be choosers. I took her money and became her paid companion. After Mother and Jessie were in bed for hours that night, I sat beside Mrs. Gordon, listening to the story she told of herself. Brief, vague, and unsatisfactory to a degree, that story was. She had been an orphan from childhood. She was not wealthy, but she had sufficient; great trouble had suddenly come upon her, and she had lost her husband after four months of married life. That was all.
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May Agnes Fleming
May Agnes Fleming (pseudonyms, Cousin May Carleton, M. A. Earlie; November 15, 1840 – March 24, 1880) was a Canadian novelist.
Biography
She was “among the first Canadians to pursue a highly successful career as a popular fiction writer.” May Agnes Early was born in Carleton, West Saint John, in the Colony of New Brunswick, the daughter of Bernard and Mary Early. May Agnes began publishing while studying at school. She married an engineer, John W. Fleming, in 1865. She moved to New York two years after her first novel, Erminie, The gipsy’s Vow: A Tale of Love and Vengeance, was published there (1863). Under the pseudonym “Cousin May Carleton”, she published several serial tales in the New York Mercury and the New York Weekly.
Twenty-one were printed in book form, seven posthumously.[6] She also wrote under the pseudonym “M.A. Earlie”. The exact count is unclear since her works were often retitled, but it is estimated at around 40. However, some were not written by her but were attributed to her by publishers cashing in on her popularity. At her peak, she earned over $10,000 yearly due to publishers granting her exclusive rights to her work. She died in Brooklyn of Bright’s disease.
May Agnes Fleming
