Hester Mulso Chapone

27 October 1727 - 25 December 1801

Standard Name: Chapone, Hester Mulso

Birth Name: Hester Mulso

Married Name: Hester Chapone

Nickname: Yes Papa

Nickname: Heck

Pseudonym: Y

Pseudonym: G.

Indexed Name: Hester Mulso Chapone

Used Form: Mrs Chapone

As a young woman Hester Mulso (later HMC ) was a forceful arguer against social injustice meted out to women, but her enduring reputation as a writer and Bluestocking is as a staid, conservative moralist and dispenser of advice. She wrote letters, essays, poems, and conduct literature.

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Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Anthologization	Sarah Lady Pennington	An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters quickly became a staple of composite volumes directed toward young women's conduct. At Edinburgh a volume of this kind, Instructions for a Young Lady, in every sphere...
Anthologization	Sarah Lady Pennington	An Additional Letter, on the Management and Education of Infant Children by SLP was added to a number of reprints of her work. Its first appearance seems to have been in a composite volume in...
Cultural formation	Elizabeth Carter	EC was without doubt woman-identified: as Hester Chapone observed, you carry your partiality to your own sex farther than I do. qtd. in Lanser, Susan Sniader. “Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economies of Desire”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 257-75. 273 This in itself gives her a position in Adrienne Rich 's lesbian continuum...
Family and Intimate relationships	Catharine Macaulay	The celebrations also included ringing the church bells and presenting CM with a gold medal. One of the odes (published at Bath the same year) depicts her as triumphing over other, more conservative women writers:...
Family and Intimate relationships	Anne Mozley	Her father, Henry Mozley , was a bookseller and publisher. As well as Anne herself, he published Jane Harvey , Charlotte Yonge , and new editions of Hester Chapone 's Letters on the Improvement of...
Family and Intimate relationships	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Gabriel Piozzi came into Hester Thrale's life as music teacher of her eldest daughter. Two days before Henry Thrale's death a friend told her warningly, that Man is in Love with you. qtd. in Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 198 Probably by...
Family and Intimate relationships	Sarah Chapone	Her son John grew up to become an attorney and in 1760 to marryHester Mulso (who had already published essays in magazines).
Friends, Associates	Anna Letitia Barbauld	ALB met Hester Chapone and was invited to her London salon. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi. xliv Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958. 81
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Montagu	The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter (the most intellectually...
Friends, Associates	Frances Burney	Among those whom FB met through the Thrales' hospitable house at Streatham were members of the Bluestocking circle. Through Hester Chapone she met Mary Delany , and a real friendship developed despite the more than...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Carter	EC associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson , Samuel Richardson , Thomas Birch , Moses Browne , Richard Savage , William and John Duncombe
Friends, Associates	Anna Williams	Williams enjoyed cordial relations with other members of Johnson's circle, like Elizabeth Carter (who helped with subscriptions for Williams's book when Johnson was dragging his feet) and Hester Thrale (who contributed). Carter counted her a...
Friends, Associates	Samuel Richardson	His close friends, too, included a remarkable number of writing women: among others Sarah Fielding , sister of his literary arch-rival, Jane Collier , Hester Mulso (later Chapone) , Susanna Highmore (later Duncombe) , and...
Friends, Associates	Jane Warton	Some of her brothers' friends (notably John Mulso and the naturalist Gilbert White ) were friends of Jane's; Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol. continuous series 231 , No. 1, Mar. 1986, pp. 84-92. 85 through John she became a friend of his sister, later Hester Mulso Chapone . Hester cryed...
Friends, Associates	Jane Cave	It is possible, though this is speculative, that JC became acquainted while living at Winchester with the hymn-writer Anne Steele (who lived not far away), with Anna Seward and Hannah More (who were friends of...

Timeline

March 1748

The Poems of Thomas Warton the elder were published by subscription.

Reid, Hugh. “’Those beck’ning ghost(s)’: The Subscribers to Thomas Warton’s Poems(1748)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.

, Sept.–Dec. 1999, pp. 277-94.

277-8, 283-4

7 November 1752-9 March 1754

The self-educated John Hawkesworth edited and published an essay-periodical called the Adventurer, on the model of Johnson 's Rambler.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

28 November 1776

The otherwise unidentified Mrs H. Cartwright wrote the dedication to Elizabeth Montagu of her first work, Letters on Female Education Addressed to a Married Lady, which appeared early the next year.

Cartwright, Mrs H. Letters on Female Education Addressed to a Married Lady. E. and C. Dilly, 1777.

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Texts

Chapone, Hester Mulso. A Letter to a New-Married Lady. E. and C. Dilly, and J. Walter, 1777.

Chapone, Hester Mulso. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind. J. Walter, 1773, 2 vols.

Chapone, Hester Mulso. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. E. and C. Dilly, and J. Walter, 1775.

Chapone, Hester Mulso. The Posthumous Works of Mrs. Chapone. John Murray, 1807, 2 vols.