Mary Caesar

Mary Caesar (July 1741), born Mary Freman, was an English writer and Jacobite activist. Her only known work, unpublished in her lifetime, chronicles the early 18th century from a Jacobite perspective. Life Caesar was the daughter of Elizabeth Aubrey (1643–1720) and Ralph Freman (1627–1714), an MP for Hertfordshire and landowner, whom she regarded as 'Perfect in Every Virtue'. Her brother, also named Ralph and also at one point an MP for Hertfordshire, met with substantially less approbation from Caesar when he declared his support for the Hanoverian line. Caesar married Charles Caesar (1673–1741), a Tory MP and fellow Jacobite, on 14 November 1702. She later worked as his election agent. They had four children, one of whom predeceased them in 1740. She was a correspondent of Alexander Pope, from approximately 1723; Jonathan Swift; and Charles Jervas. She championed the poetry of Matthew Prior and arranged for financial support for his work and that of Pope, particularly his translation of the Odyssey.