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 ascending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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
... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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