Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Hester Chapone (née Mulso) NPG D14354

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by R. Page, published by George Cowie

The daughter of a gentleman of Northamptonshire. She was married to a solicitor, who died a few months afterwards, and then took up a career as a writer. Self-educated, she was one of the learned ladies who gathered around Elizabeth Montagu, and was the author of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind. The Letters were first written for her fifteen-year-old niece in 1773; by 1829, they had gone through twenty-eight editions. The letters focused on encouraging rational understanding through the reading of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.