Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Isa Craig | IC
's poem was chosen from among six hundred entries; other contestants included the working-class poet Gerald Massey
and diarist Arthur Munby
. Caroline Norton
, visiting Edinburgh that year, had also written a poetic... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cullwick | When her employers, the Jacksons, moved away from London, HC
resigned in order to stay near Munby
. Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, pp. 1 - 28, passim. 299 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cullwick | On the first day of HC
's employment as maid-of-all-work for her lover Arthur Munby
, they had a major quarrel over his treating her as a nothing and with no consideration Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press. 255 Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press. 253-5 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cullwick | HC
was married by licence to Arthur Munby
at St James's Church, Clerkenwell, in London, with only members of her family present. Editor Liz Stanley
gives a date of 3 January for the... |
Residence | Hannah Cullwick | Following a quarrel with her husband
, HC
moved back to her home county of Shropshire. Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, pp. 1 - 28, passim. 301 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cullwick | HC
's secret cross-class marriage to Arthur Munby
was revealed by the publication of his will; it caused a furore in the national newspapers. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Munby |
Material Conditions of Writing | Hannah Cullwick | HC
recorded purchasing for a shilling a valentine for Arthur Munby
—a dog with a chain around his neck—on which she made a verse or two. Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press. 57 |
Author summary | Hannah Cullwick | HC
wrote seventeen diaries between the years 1854 and 1873, plus numerous letters chronicling in detail her life as a lower servant, as well as her long cross-class courtship and eventual marriage to Arthur Munby |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cullwick | While in SuffolkHC
was visited by Munby
. Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, pp. 1 - 28, passim. 299 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cullwick | While in London, she met Munby
in the nearby park or visited him in his chambers at the Temple, where she would wash his feet and do other menial work to demonstrate her humility... |
Employer | Hannah Cullwick | From September 1872, HC
often stayed at Munby
's chambers to look after the place while he was out of town; he then engaged her as his maid-of-all-work. Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press. 241 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cullwick | Munby
visited HC
irregularly while she lived in Bearley. They became closer again, though still living apart, in 1884 or 1885. Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, pp. 1 - 28, passim. 9, 296, 302 |
Textual Production | Hannah Cullwick | HC
kept a record of her life intermittently for almost two decades. Liz Stanley
, editor of her diaries, claims that her reasons for writing shifted. At first, she wrote simply at Munby
's behest... |
Textual Features | Hannah Cullwick | According to Liz Stanley
, the extent of minutiae, repetition, and corresponding lack of emotional or psychological recording or retrospective analysis in the diaries' accounts of HC
's daily work is a result of their... |
Textual Features | Hannah Cullwick | HC
's writing was certainly directed in large part at producing erotic representations that would fuel her relationship with Munby
. Some, such as her description of chimney sweeping, are obviously so: I'd a capital... |