Chapone

Chapone, Hester (1727-1801), an English authoress, daughter of Thomas Mulso, born in Northamptonshire. She had considerable accomplishments, and showed an early turn for literature, since in her tenth year she wrote a short romance. The best known of her works is Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1772), but she also wrote in The Rambler, The Adventurer, and The Gentleman's Magazine.