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".

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Mary Walker
This novel reads like a conduct book, or a rather muted feminist manifesto. Its action-packed plot (in which young people grow up and look for mates, and a woman married to a second husband discovers...
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, pp. 84-92.
85
through John she became a friend of his sister, later Hester Mulso Chapone . Hester cryed...
Occupation Jane Warton
JW found herself a governess position after her father's death.
Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
continuous series 231
, No. 1, pp. 84-92.
86
On 24 January 1750 John Mulso reported that she had a new post with a Lady Sherrard at Hampton Court, where he looked...
Textual Features Susanna Watts
The many pictures in the volume include diagrams of the hold of a slave ship, I & Dash my Dog (a sketch), and prints of Hester Mulso Chapone , Lady Rachel Russell (with a copy...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Helena Wells
HW says she has more respect for the upper classes than some of our modern reformists.
Wells, Helena. Letters on Subjects of Importance to the Happiness of Young Females. L. Peacock; W. Creech.
7
She recommends reading poetry and history, not novels: Novel reading tends to enervate the mind. We rise from...
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...
Textual Features Mary Wollstonecraft
Though only about twenty percent of its extracts are written by women (the same proportion as from the Bible),
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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this book is feminist in its emphasis on the virtue of independent judgement as...
Publishing Mary Wollstonecraft
It was dedicated to the French statesman Talleyrand , a supporter of the Revolution and the reputed lover of Germaine de Staël . She produced a second, revised edition by the end of the year...

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