Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Hester Mulso Chapone(1727–1801)

Hester Mulso Chapone is documented in Fuller’s letters (1832). One work is named, all in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1832
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with Hester Mulso Chapone

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Chapone in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1832—

Letter to James F. Clarke

mentioned
“She is well and divides her time between hard piano practice and the study of Johnson and Mrs Chapone!”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller reports Elizabeth Randall reading "Mrs Chapone"; Hudspeth identified this as most likely Chapone's Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady (1773), her best-known work and a widely read conduct book for young women.