Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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
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).
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...
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...
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, 1952.
60
The king
and queen
were remarkably attentive to her in her widowhood. Prominent...
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...
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...
Timeline
March 1748: The Poems of Thomas Warton the elder were...
Reid, Hugh. “’Those beck’ning ghost(s)’: The Subscribers to Thomas Warton’s Poems(1748)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
25
, Sept.–Dec. 1999, pp. 277-94.
277-8, 283-4
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.
Cartwright, Mrs H. Letters on Female Education Addressed to a Married Lady. E. and C. Dilly, 1777.
prelims
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.
