WorkHester Mulso Chapone

Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady

Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady (1773) Inferred

InferredFuller 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.

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Documented 1832

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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 work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

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.