Hester Chapone

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 Mrs. Montague (_q.v._), and was the author of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind and Miscellanies.

This article is originally from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.