Chapone, Hester (Mulso)

Chapone, Hester (Mulso)
(1727-1801)
   Miscellaneous writer, dau. of a gentleman of Northamptonshire, was m. to a solicitor, who d. a few months afterwards. She was one of the learned ladies who gathered round Mrs. Montague (q.v.), and was the author of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind and Miscellanies.

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  • Hester Chapone — (Mulso) (1727 ndash;1801), writer of advice books for women, was the daughter of agentleman of Northamptonshire. She was married to a solicitor, who died a fewmonths afterwards, and then took up a career as a writer. Self educated, she was one of …   Wikipedia

  • Hester Chapone — Page de titre de Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1773) Hester Chapone (Mulso) (1727 1801), auteur de livres de conseils pour les femmes, est la fille d un gentleman du Northamptonshire. Elle épouse un avoué, qui meurt quelques mois plus… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • White, Gilbert — (1720 1793)    Naturalist, b. at Selborne, Hants, and ed. along with the Wartons (q.v.) at their father s school at Basingstoke, and thereafter at Oxf., entered the Church, and after holding various curacies settled, in 1755, at Selborne. He… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

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