Maria de Fleury 

Maria De Fleury (1752/3-92) sold 12 of her titles from her two residences between 1781 and 1792, first at No. 2, City Mews, White Cross Street, and later at No. 31, Jewin-Street, both in the Moorfields area of the City of London.  One one early imprint she was joined as a seller by a  Mrs. Dee, whose residence or bookshop (it is not certain which it is) was in Charles Street, Southwark, the same street in which William Button, Baptist minister at Dean Street, Southwark, lived for a time and sold his first work in 1778, his only imprint from that location. Given Mrs. Dee’s connection with the Gordon protests and the Protestant Association, it is probable she was a dissenter and possibly a Baptist as well attending at Dean Street or maybe at John Macgowan’s congregation. Macgowan was a pronounced supporter of the Protestant Association, as were John Ryland, Sr. and Jr. at Northampton, the former serving as one of De Fleury’s spiritual advisors after his arrival at Enfield, near London, in 1786. De Fleury's works were sold exclusively by dissenters, including Henry and Martha Lewis Trapp at 1 Paternoster Row, and Martha Gurney at 128 Holborn Hill (see their entries on this site). De Fleury's last work, Falsehood examined at the bar of truth, in 1791, was sold by a group of three women, a remarkable title page in that regard: De Fleury, Martha Trapp, and Martha Gurney. De Fleury also sold works with four other women sellers who, like de Fleury, most likely sold from their homes as well, although they may have had more organized books shops than de Fleury's despite appearing only on these imprints with de Fleury: a Mrs. Dee of Charles Street, Southwark (the same street William Button was selling from at that time) in 1781; a Mrs. Hancock in 1790 (no address provided on the title page); a Mrs. Waugh at Fisher-Row, Reading, and a Mrs. Horton at Wallingford, Berks, in 1791.

For more on de Fleury's life, click here for her entry in the Biographical Summaries. For a selection of her poetry, click here; for her published 1787 letter to William Huntington, click here; for her final pamphlet on Huntington's antinomianism, click here.; for a formal printed letter, click here; for some printed meditations, click here.

1781

1.   De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. Unrighteous abuse detected and chastised, or, a vindication of innocence and integrity, being an answer to a virulent poem, intituled, The Protestant Association. By Maria De Fleury. London: printed for the author by R. Denham, No. 20, Primrose Hill, Salisbury Square. Sold by the author, No. 2, City Mews, White Cross Street; and by the printer, as above, M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]

2.  De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. Unrighteous abuse detected and chastised, or, a vindication of innocence and integrity, being an answer to a virulent poem, intituled, The Protestant Association. By Maria De Fleury. [Second edition.] London: printed for the author by R. Denham, No. 20, Primrose Hill, Salisbury Square. Sold by the author, No. 2, City Mews, White Cross Street; and by the printer, as above, M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]

3.  De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. Poems, occasioned by the confinement and acquittal of the Right Honourable Lord George Gordon, President of the Protestant Association. By Maria De Fleury. London: printed for the author by R. Denham, No. 100, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street. And sold by Mr. Margram, Southampton-Street, Strand; Mrs. Dee, No. 35, Charles-Street, Horse-Lye-Down; Mr Tillcock, No. 10, Warwick Lane; and by the author, No. 2, City Mews, White Cross-Street, M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]

1782

4.  De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. Henry, or the triumph of grace. A sacred poem. Dedicated, by permission, to the Right Honourable Lord George Gordon. By Maria De Fleury. London: printed by R. Denham, No. 20, Salisbury-Square. Sold by the author, No. 2, City-Mews, White-Cross-Street; and by the printer, as above, M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]

1783

5.  De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. An ode occasioned by the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Dowland, daughter of Mr. John Fullford, shipwright; who died soon after the birth and death of her second child, the 12th of April, 1783, in the twenty-fourth year of her age. By Maria Deflury. London: printed and sold, at the chapel, in Rose-Lane, near Ratcliff-Cross; and at Mr. Miller's, No 74, Rosemary-Lane, [1783]

1786

6.  De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. Henry, or the triumph of grace Henry: or, the Wanderer Reclaimed. A sacred poem. Humbly addressed to British youth. By Maria de Fleury. London: printed by W. Justins, No. 6, Albion-Buildings, Bartholomew-Close, for the author; and sold at No. 31, Jewin-Street, and at the printer's, M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]

7.  De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. Hymns for Believer's Baptism. By Maria De Fleury. London: printed by W. Justins, Albion's Buildings, Bartholomew-Close; and sold at the Rev. Mr. Kirkham's meeting-house, Red-Cross-Street, near Cripplegate, London, M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]

1787

8.  De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. A letter to the Rev. Mr Huntington. By Maria De Fleury. [Second edition.] London: printed and sold by T. Wilkins, Aldermanbury; sold also [by the author] at No.31, Jewin-Street, MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]

9.  De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Huntington. By Maria De Fleury. [Third edition.] London: printed and sold by T. Wilkins, Aldermanbury; sold also [by the author] at No.31, Jewin-Street, MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]

1788

10.De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. An answer to the daughter's defence of her father, Addressed to her Father Himself. By Maria De Fleury. London: printed and sold by T. Wilkins, No. 23, Aldermanbury; sold also [by the author] at No. 31, Jewin-Street, and by R. Thomson, Corner of Crown-Court, Little Poultney-Street, Soho, MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]

11.De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. A serious address to the Rev. Mr. Huntington; containing some remarks on his sermon, entitled "the servant of the Lord, described and vindicated." By Maria De Fleury. London: printed and sold by T. Wilkins, No. 23, Aldermanbury; sold also by J. Fuller, Broad-Way, Deptford; J. Matthews, Strand; R. Thomson, Corner of Crown-Court, Little Poultney-Street, Soho; H. Trapp, Paternoster-Row; J. Pitcher, Barbican; and [by the author] at No.31, Jewin-Street, MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]

1790

12. De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. British liberty established, and Gallic liberty restored; or, the triumph of freedom. A poem. Occasioned by the grand revolution in France, M,DCC,LXXXIX. With a prospect of the glorious time when true religion and civil liberty shall shed their benign influences over the world. By Maria De Fleury. London: from Peterborough-House Press printed for the author; and sold by J. Matthews; H. D Symonds; J. Nott [should be Knott]; Ash; Thompson; and by Mrs. Hancock, 1790.

13. De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. Henry, or the triumph of grace Henry; or, the wanderer reclaimed. A sacred poem. Humbly addressed to British youth. By Maria de Fleury. London: printed by W. Justins, Shoemaker-Row, Blackfriars; and sold by Richardson; Johnson; and Mathews, [1790?]

1791

14. De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. Antinomianism unmasked and refuted; and the moral law proved from the scriptures of the Old and New-Testament, To be still in full Force as the rule of the Christian's conduct. By Maria De Fleury. London: printed and sold for the author by T. Wilkins, Aldermanbury. Sold also by H. Symon[d]s, No. 20, Paternoster-Row; and by the author, No. 31, Jewin-Street, London; also by Mrs. Waugh, Fisher-Row, Reading; and Mrs. Horton, Wallingford, Berks, MDCCXCI. [1791]

15.De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. Divine poems and essays on various subjects. Viz. Immanuel; or, the Godhead of Christ displayed. A Meditation written in a Bower at Lady Grove, Sutton. Elegies. Epithalamiums. Epistles to Miranda, &c. Hymns. A Poem on Redemption. A Walk at Enfield. Meditations on the Canticles. - for the Lord's Supper. Christ All in All. Meditations on Rev. xii. 6. A Summer Day's Excursion. Odes. Letters. A Soliloquy. By Maria De Fleury. With recommendatory prefaces, by the Rev. Mr Wills, Rev. Mr Towers, and Rev. Mr Ryland. London: printed for the author, and sold by T. Wilkins, Aldermanbury; by Bellamy and Roberts, No. 202, Strand; M. Trapp, No. 1, Pater-Noster Row; Mr. Nott, Lombard street; M. Gurney, No. 128, Holborn, and by the author, No. 31, Jewin-Street, [1791]

16. De Fleury, Maria, active 1773-1791. Falsehood examined at the bar of truth; or, a farewell to Mr. Wm. Huntington, and Mr. Thomas Jones, Of Reading: containing strictures on the broken cistern; written by the former, Addressed to the Rev. Mr. Ryland, Senior. And upon Mystery Babylon, encompassed for utter destruction, written by the latter. By Maria De Fleury. London: printed and sold for the author by T. Wilkins, Aldermanbury. Sold also by Mrs. Trapp, No. 1, Paternoster Row; M. Gurney, No. 228, Holborn; and by the author, No. 31, Jewin-Street, 1791.  [Another instance of a work sold by a group of dissenting women sellers.]