Maria De Fleury

01 January 1752 - 02 October 1792

MDF was a Baptist—and anti-Catholic—religious, theological, and political polemicist active during the 1780s and 1790s who wrote with force and imagination, especially in her verse. She published one more private poem, an elegiac ode.

Milestones

Probably 1752

MDF was born about this year if her age was correctly listed in the record of her funeral. Another source, not particularly trustworthy, gives the year of her birth as 1754.

Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Maria de Fleury.

Whelan, Tim. emails to Isobel Grundy about Mary Steele, Mary Scott, and Maria De Fleury.

After early February 1781

MDF published her pamphlet Poems, Occasioned by the Confinement and Acquittal of the Right Honourable Lord George Gordon , President of the Protestant Association.

Gordon the champion of Protestantism converted to Judaism in 1786.

De Bruyn, Frans. “Anti-Semitism, Millenarianism, and Radical Dissent in Edmund Burke’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Reflections on the Revolution in France</span&gt”;. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.

, No. 4, pp. 577-00.

585

De Fleury, Maria. Poems. R. Denham.

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Just before 2 October 1792

MDF died in London aged only forty. She was buried on this date in the Dissenters' burial grounds at Bunhill Fields, near where she lived.