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Hester Chapone

British writer · Writers · Lived 1727 to 1801 · aged 74

Hester Chapone née Mulso, was an English writer of conduct books for women. She became associated with the London Blue Stockings Society.

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Title page from the first edition of Hester Chapone's Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1773), one of the most popular conduct books at the time Mary Wollstonecraft was writing her first work

Title page from the first edition of Hester Chapone's Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1773), one of the most popular conduct books at the time Mary Wollstonecraft was writing her first work

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Lived 1727 to 1801 · aged 74

Writers born in the 1720s 6

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