In the novel The Man in the Brown Suit, Mrs Flemming is the wife of Henry Flemming. At the offer of Mr Flemming, Anne Beddingfeld stayed at their house in Kensington for a while, after the death of her father.
Mrs Flemming is described as a "stout placid woman of the 'good wife and mother' type". She treated Anne with great kindness but did not quite welcome her presence in the house. As Anne thought: "It is really a very hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are." When Miss Emery, the governess of the Flemmings left, Mrs Flemming offered Anne the post. Anne thought Mrs Flemming did not really want her but offered her the job out of Christian charity. Anne however turned it down as she had decided to travel to South Africa. In parting, Mrs Flemming gave Anne a sum of £25. Of Mrs Flemming, Anne observed: "She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth."