Authority Cited: Mulso, Mrs.
Author name and dates: Mulso, Mrs. (nee Mulso, later Hester Chapone) (1727-1801)
BKG Bio-tweet: Educated in French, Italian, Latin; first pub. in Rambler; SJ quotes example of quatrain form; later conduct books for women
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Mulso cite in 1755 Dict, vol. 2. No Mulso or Chapone cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Dictionary quotation illustrating quatrain, given below, is perhaps from a Magazine publication c.1750]
Robs virtue of content, and youth of joy?
What nymph or goddess in a luckless hour
Disclos’d to light the mischief-making boy. Mrs. Mulso.
Author name and dates: Mulso, Mrs. (nee Mulso, later Hester Chapone) (1727-1801)
BKG Bio-tweet: Educated in French, Italian, Latin; first pub. in Rambler; SJ quotes example of quatrain form; later conduct books for women
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Mulso cite in 1755 Dict, vol. 2. No Mulso or Chapone cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Dictionary quotation illustrating quatrain, given below, is perhaps from a Magazine publication c.1750]
- Mulso (no work cited); quatrain
- Later published in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, by Mrs. Chapone, author of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, The Second Edition, 1775, London: printed for E. and C. Dilly in the Poultry and J. Walter, Charing-Cross. (To Stella, p. 146-149)
Robs virtue of content, and youth of joy?
What nymph or goddess in a luckless hour
Disclos’d to light the mischief-making boy. Mrs. Mulso.