Hester Mulso Chapone

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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.
Stipple engraving of Hester Mulso Chapone y R. Page, published late 1812. She wears a hat with a flat top and large brim over a white cap, a dark bodice with white linen under it, and apparently a coat which is either sleeveless or darker in the body than sleeves. Her name is below: "Mrs Chapone".

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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, p. xxi - xlvi.
xliv
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen.
81
Publishing Elizabeth Bentley
1,935 copies of the book were subscribed for. Names on the list include those of BluestockingsElizabeth Carter and Hester Mulso Chapone , William Cowper , and a number of those men who later wrote...
Textual Production Frances Brooke
There are in fact further (though highly speculative) grounds to suspect an involvement of FB (lately Frances Moore) in The World. A set of it now in the Bodleian Library has had contributors' names...
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...
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
With only six people besides Johnson appearing in The Rambler, EC 's two papers are the largest outside contribution. The six also include Catherine Talbot and Hester Mulso Chapone . A second essay by...
Publishing Elizabeth Carter
The book had gone to press in June 1757.
Feminist Companion Archive.
The original press run of 1,018 copies had to be supplemented with a further 250. First of several more editions was the Dublin one of the...
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
Apart from her prowess in intellectual genres, EC was an indefatigable letter-writer. Catherine Talbot urged her in 1763 to circulate if not to publish her letters. In 1807 the two-volume edition of Hester Mulso Chapone
Occupation Elizabeth Carter
Edward Moore 's periodical The World mooted the extraordinary concept of EC as principal of an Oxford or Cambridge college: this number may be by Hester Mulso Chapone .
The World. R. and J. Dodsley.
131: 790
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
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.
Lanser, Susan Sniader. “Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economies of Desire”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, pp. 257-75.
273
This in itself gives her a position in Adrienne Rich 's lesbian continuum...
Occupation Elizabeth Carter
The essay may well be by Hester Mulso, later Chapone . Like most fantasies of women as Members of Parliament and so forth, this is humorous, ambivalent, and carefully distanced from reality. It is a...
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...
Textual Features Jane Cave
One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior , Swift , and Pope , the lesser-known men John Scott , William Broome , and Nathaniel Cotton , and...
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).
Textual Features Sarah Chapone
Though most of her letters to Samuel Richardson are mainly domestic in content, those of the 1750s (on the composition of his novels and all kinds of gender issues arising from that) may quite fairly...

Timeline

March 1748: The Poems of Thomas Warton the elder were...

Writing climate item

March 1748

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

7 November 1752-9 March 1754: The self-educated John Hawkesworth edited...

Writing climate item

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...

Women writers item

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.

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.
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.