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    Hester Chapone née Mulso (27 October 1727, in Twywell, Northamptonshire – 25 December 1801, in Hadwell, Middlesex), was an English writer of conduct books...
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  • Chapone is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hester Chapone (1727–1801), English conduct writer Sarah Chapone (1699–1764), English legal...
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  • poet and writer Hester Biddle (c. 1629–97), English Quaker writer Hester "Hetty" Burr (c. 1796-1862), American abolitionist Hester Chapone (1727–1801), British...
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    Vesey (1715–1791), Hester Chapone (1727–1801) and the classicist Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806). In the following generation came Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741–1821)...
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  • Sarah Chapone (11 December 1699 – 24 February 1764), born Sarah Kirkham and often referred to as Mrs Chapone, was an English legal theorist, pamphleteer...
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    Burney Elizabeth Carter Margaret Cavendish-Harley, Duchess of Portland Hester Chapone Mary Delany Sarah Fielding David Garrick Samuel Johnson Catharine Macaulay...
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    Among her many eminent friends were Elizabeth Montagu, Hannah More, Hester Chapone and other Bluestocking members. Also close friends were Anne Hunter...
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    Wollstonecraft, along with other female reformers such as Catharine Macaulay and Hester Chapone, maintained that women were indeed capable of rational thought and deserved...
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  • James Chapman (born 1955, US, f) Pat Chapman (born 1940, England, nf) Hester Chapone (1827–1901, England, nf) Corinne Chaponnière (born 1954, Switzerland...
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    England, as well as more serious commentators like Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Chapone and Mary Delany. As a notable public figure, if you weren't being talked...
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  • London as Portia in The Merchant of Venice but is poorly received. Hester Chapone – Miscellanies William Combe – Letters from Eliza to Yorick (forgeries...
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  • Chanwai-Earle (living, Papua New Guinea/New Zealand), pw., poet & scriptwriter Hester Chapone (1827–1901, England), wr. of conduct books Corinne Chaponnière (b. 1954...
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  • 1892–1982, China/US, L/Lc) Rose Woodallen Chapman (1875–1923, US, S) Hester Chapone (1727–1801, England, F) Walter Charleton (1619–1707, England, P) Colin...
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  • (1889–1972), writer and historian Pat Chapman (1940–2022), food writer Hester Chapone (1727–1801), writer and bluestocking Charlotte Charke (originally Cibber...
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  • Tyler; the meaning of the ‘Karnaby’ is unknown Chapone Place – after famed Georgian essayist Hester Chapone, who lived nearby on Dean Street; formerly Dean's...
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    where she met Frances Boscawen, Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Vesey and Hester Chapone, some of whom would be lifelong friends. In 1782, she wrote a witty...
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  • century. It was derived from the Latin fidelitas, meaning faithfulness. Hester Chapone adopted Fidelia as her protagonist's pseudonym in "The Story of Fidelia"...
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    Montagu Frances Sheridan Hester Chapone Sarah Trimmer Anna Barbauld Anna Seward Hannah More Charlotte Smith Elizabeth Inchbald Hester Thrale Piozzi Frances...
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    Barbauld, Sarah Fielding, Hester Chapone, James Beattie, James Woodhouse and Anna Williams. Samuel Johnson's hostess, Hester Thrale, was also an occasional...
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  • against conduct book writers such as Hannah More, John Gregory, and Hester Chapone. Beginning with the juvenilia, as early as Catharine, or the Bower,...
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  • André Morellet, French economist and writer (died 1819) October 27 – Hester Chapone, English writer of conduct books (died 1801) December 27 – Arthur Murphy...
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    Pope, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, Samuel Johnson, James Thomson and Hester Chapone. Barbauld's 50-volume series of The British Novelists, published in...
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    Centlivre (1667–1723) Anna Chamber (d. 1777) Mary Chandler (1687–1745) Hester Chapone (1727–1801) Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710) Emily Frederick Clark (fl. 1798–1833)...
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    writers who had "started up since the writing of this little piece": Hester Chapone (1727–1801), Hannah More, Phillis Wheatley, and the unnamed author of...
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    a charm unknown / In grave advice, as utter'd by [Hester] CHAPONE" (ll.191–192). Anna Seward, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Ann Radcliffe, artist Diana Beauclerk...
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  • Elizabeth Singer Rowe Anna Laetitia Barbauld Frances Brooke Sally Carter Hester Chapone Mary Collier Frances Greville (with a response from Isabella Howard...
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  • Netherlands, and United Provinces José Cadalso – Apuntaciones autobiográficas Hester Chapone – Letters on the Improvement of the Mind David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes...
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  • (1774), John Gregory's A Father's Legacy to His Daughters (1774), Hester Chapone's Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1773), William Kenrick's The...
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    literary notables Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu, William Cowper, and Hester Chapone. As a labouring-class poet, Bentley—"content to be the last and lowest...
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    leading to social rejection. In the era’s conduct books, such as Hester Chapone's Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, there were warnings about marriages...
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