A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Chapone, Hester

by John William Cousin

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.