Author talk:Anna Fleming

Names

• Anna Fleming: "Aunt Sarah" (1843)
• Miss Anna Fleming: "Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow" (1843)
• Miss Anna Fleming: "The Fairy Chain" (1844)
• Anna Fleming: "Spring Bells" (1844)
• Miss Anna Fleming: "Old and Young by Turns" (1844)
• Anna Fleming: "The Country Cousins" (1844)
• A. Fleming: "The New House" (1845)
• A. Fleming: "Strange Sights" (1845)
• Mrs. A. Fleming: "The Tapestry Workers" (1845)
• Anna Fleming: "The Song of the Bleachers" (1845)
• A. Fleming: "Deceitful Blue" (1846)

If these are all the same person, it looks like she married some time in 1844/1845, and kept using her maiden name when being published (presumably because she was already known by this name from her previous stories). --Yodin^T 17:56, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Other Flemings in Godey's Lady's Book

In addition to [Miss/Mrs] A[nna] Fleming, there are a few more contributors with the same surname, who might be related (and so could help to identify who Anna Fleming was):

• Jane T. Fleming: "The Pic-Nic" (1844) (external scan)
• C. A. Fleming: "My Brother's Grave" (1846) (external scan)

Around the same time, "Professor Fleming", one of the editors of a French and English and English and French Dictionary (along with Professor Tibbins, Charles Picot, and Judah Dobson) is mentioned twice; however, this is the Scottish philologist Charles Fleming (1806–1875) who doesn't seem to have had any connection to America, so it seems unlikely that Anna, Jane, and C. A. Fleming are all closely related to him. --Yodin^T 17:56, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Other translations

In Godey’s Lady’s Book, volume 30 alone has several more short German poems very similar to those that credit Fleming as the translator:

• "Song" by Reinick
• "The Beacon" (uncredited)
• "The Omen" by Reinick
• "The Chapel" by Uhland (uncredited)

These could well be by Fleming as well (perhaps uncredited so as not to make it seem like the magazine only has a few contributors), especially as they're from the same authors as the translations credited to her. There are probably several more similar uncredited translations in the other volumes of the time; including two more poems by Reinick which don't credit the translator:

• "Love's Message" (volume 29)
• "A Wish" (volume 31)

--Yodin^T 18:32, 28 May 2024 (UTC)