Fleming, May Agnes (1840–1880)

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Fleming, May Agnes (1840–1880)

Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Name variations: Cousin May Carlton. Born May Early 1840 in New Brunswick, Canada; died of Bright's disease, 1880.

First Canadian woman to achieve success as author of popular romances, wrote La Masque; or, The Midnight Queen (1863), A Mad Marriage (1875), Kate Danton; or, Captain Danton's Daughters (1877), The Heir of Charlton (1878) and Lost for a Woman (1880), among others.