Hester Chapone

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Hester Chapone (Mulso) (1727–1801), miscellaneous writer, daughter of a gentleman of Northamptonshire, was married to a solicitor, who died a few months afterwards. She was one of the learned ladies who gathered round Elizabeth Montagu, and was the author of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind and Miscellanies.

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.