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(Hester Chapone (1727-1801) was a British writer and advoc...)
Hester Chapone (1727-1801) was a British writer and advocate of women's education who is best known as the author of one of the most popular conduct books for women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Self-educated in French, Latin and Greek, Chapone published much of her work after the death of her husband in 1761. Her firm belief in the right of women to lead emotionally and intellectually fulfilled lives was much praised by contemporary feminists. These volumes, first published posthumously in 1807 contain a biography and a series of unpublished letters from Chapone to her friends. Her letters to her friend Samuel Richardson concerning the right of women in marriage and women's education illustrate her strong views concerning these subjects, with this volume's other letters and her biography providing further valuable insights into her character. Volume 2 contains her letters to Richardson.
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Hester Chapone was the daughter of Thomas Mulso, a country gentleman, was born at Twywell, Northamptonshire, on the 27th of October 1727. She was a precocious child, and at the age of nine wrote a romance entitled The Loves of Amoret and Melissa.
Hester Chapone was educated more thoroughly than most girls in that period, learning French, Italian and Latin, and began writing regularly and corresponding with other writers at the age of 18.
Hester Chapone was one of the little court of women who gathered at North End, Fulham and in Miss Susannah Highmore's sketch of the novelist reading Sir Charles Grandison to his friends Miss Mulso is the central figure. She corresponded with Richardson on " filial obedience " in letters as long as his own, signing herself his " ever obliged and affectionate child. " She admired, however, with discrimination, and in the words of her biographer (Posthumous Works, 1807, p. 9) " her letters show with what dignity, tempered with proper humility, she could maintain her own well-grounded opinion. " In 1760 Miss Mulso, with her father's reluctant consent, married1 This play appears to have been issued in 1653 with the title TheParracide, or Revenge for Honour as the work of Henry Glathorne. the attorney, John Chapone, who had been befriended by Richardson. Her husband died within a year of her marriage. Mrs Chapone remained in London visiting various friends.
(Hester Chapone (1727-1801) was a British writer and advoc...)
Hester Chapone was married in 1760 to the solicitor John Chapone (c. 1728–1761), who was the son of an earlier moral writer, Sarah Chapone (1699–1764), but soon widowed.
