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See also:CHAPONE, HESTER (1727–1801) , See also:English essayist, daughter of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Mulso, a See also:country See also:gentleman, was See also:born at Twywell, See also:Northamptonshire, on the 27th of See also:October 1727. She was a precocious See also:child, and at the See also:age of nine wrote a See also:romance entitled The Loves of Amoret and Melissa. Hecky Mulso, as she was familiarly called, See also:developed a beautiful See also:voice, which earned her the name of " the See also:linnet." While on a visit to See also:Canterbury she made the acquaintance of the learned Mrs See also:Elizabeth See also:Carter, and soon became one of the admirers of the novelist See also:Samuel See also:Richardson. She was one of the little See also:court of See also:women who gathered at See also:North End, See also:Fulham; and in See also:Miss Susannah Highmore's See also:sketch of the novelist See also:reading See also:Sir See also:Charles Grandison to his See also:friends Miss Mulso is the central figure. She corresponded with Richardson on " filial obedience " in letters as See also:long as his own, See also:signing herself his " ever obliged and affectionate child." She admired, however, with discrimination, and in the words of her biographer (See also:Posthumous See also:Works, 1807, p. 9) " her letters show with what dignity, tempered with proper humility, she could maintain her own well-grounded See also:opinion." In 176o Miss Mulso, with her See also:father's reluctant consent, married
1 This See also:play appears to have been issued in 1653 with the See also:title The Parracide, or Revenge for See also:Honour as the See also:work of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Glathorne.the See also:attorney, See also:John Chapone, who had been befriended by Richardson. Her See also:husband died within a See also:year of her See also:marriage. Mrs Chapone remained in See also:London visiting various friends. She had already made small contributions to various See also:periodicals when she published, in 1772, her best known work, Letters on the Improvement of the Mind. This See also:book brought her numerous See also:requests from distinguished persons to undertake the See also:education of their See also:children. She died on the 25th of See also:December 18or.
See The Posthumous Works of Mrs Chapone, containing her See also:correspondence with Mr Richardson; a See also:series of letters to Mrs Elizabeth Carter . . together with an See also:account of her See also:life and See also:character See also:drawn up by her own See also:family (1807).
End of Article: CHAPONE, HESTER (1727–1801)
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