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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Mary Delany | MD
continued to make new friends late in life (though she was said to have declined to meet Hester Thrale
). Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 60 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Katharine Elwood | Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, Griselda Murray
, Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford
, Hester Lynch Piozzi |
| Textual Features | Eliza Fenwick | For this anthology EF
gathered mostly improving pedagogical material, drawing on revered literary names like Shakespeare
and Milton
, as well as more recent and controversial writers like Thomas Chatterton
and Helen Maria Williams
... |
| Author summary | Fidelia | This symbolic name indicating faithfulness (which was also adopted for themselves by Mary Astell
, Jane Barker
, and the American writers Sarah Gill
, Hannah Griffitts
and Sukey Vickery
, as well as for... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Green | The tone of the work is conservative, leavened with an intelligent concern for development of independent thinking. Topics of various letters include Conduct and Conversation, Forbearance, Chastity, Truth, Employment of Time... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Heyrick | She printed this for the Author, Heyrick, Elizabeth. Familiar Letters Addressed to Children and Young Persons of the Middle Ranks. Darton, Harvey and Darton. title-page |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Heyrick | She does not eschew politics on account of her readers' youth, but delivers an anti-war and anti-imperial message: The finest sight that could possibly be exhibited to me on earth, would be not a great... |
| Publishing | Samuel Johnson | SJ
contributed essays to John Hawkesworth
's periodical The Adventurer (whose contributors also included Catherine Talbot
, Hester Mulso (later Chapone)
, and Jane Warton
). Johnson, Samuel. The Idler; and, The Adventurer. Editors Bate, Walter Jackson et al., Yale University Press. 339, 492 |
| 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:... |
| Publishing | Mary Masters | This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press. 1: 409-10 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Hannah More | Of a total of 114 tracts, HM
wrote fifty herself. Her sisters Sally
and Patty
contributed (Patty with a single tract), as did the Clapham Sect
, Hester Mulso Chapone
(Mary Wood the Housemaid... |
| 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. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 198 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Radcliffe | MAR
focuses on the impossibility for middle-class women of earning an honest living, and the gradual male takeover of traditionally female jobs. She laments the fact that men no longer offer women adequate protection, and... |
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