Hester Chapone

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Hester Chapone was an 18th-century English writer and moralist best known for her influential conduct book "Letters on the Improvement of the Mind" and her role in the Bluestocking intellectual circle.

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Hester Chapone canonical 2

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instanceOf essayist
human
letter writer
moralist
associatedWith Bluestocking intellectual circle
linked to: Bluestocking circle

Elizabeth Montagu
birthName Hester Mulso
countryOfCitizenship England
Kingdom of Great Britain
dateOfBirth 1727-10-27
dateOfDeath 1801-12-25
describedAs 18th-century English writer and moralist
educatedAt home education
floruit 18th century
gender female
genre conduct literature
letters
moral philosophy
hasInfluenced conduct literature for women
women’s education in the 18th century
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Bluestocking circle
movement Bluestocking
notableWork A Letter to a New-Married Lady
A Letter to a Young Lady
Letters on the Improvement of the Mind
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
occupation moralist
writer
placeOfBirth Middlesex
linked to: County of Middlesex

Twickenham
placeOfDeath Hadley
Middlesex
linked to: County of Middlesex
primaryAudience young women
religion Anglicanism
spouse John Chapone
subjectOf scholarship on women’s writing
studies of the Bluestockings
workFocusedOn domestic virtue
female education
moral instruction
writingStyle didactic

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Elizabeth Montagu socialCircle Hester Chapone
Bluestocking circle notableMember Hester Chapone