Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
24
, No. 1, pp. 51-71. 61
Arthur Joseph Munby
Standard Name: Munby, Arthur Joseph
Used Form: Arthur J. Munby
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Webster | During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor
characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism, |
| Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Other radio plays that MW
has written about women writers include An Uncommon Love, based on Hannah Cullwick
's relationship with Arthur Munby
, A Consoling Blue, about Jean Rhys
's writing of... |
| Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | He had ties to writers Anne Ogle
, Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Ouida
, and Mathilde Blind
. His movement through England's literary circles also brought him into the company of Thomas Carlyle
, James Anthony Froude |
| Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Arthur Munby
read with strong admiration & pleasure Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray. 119 |
| Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | CR
's critical reputation stood very high from the appearance of Goblin Market, although she was not a popular poet. H. Buxton Forman
in Our Living Poets, 1871, got her middle name wrong... |
| Other Life Event | Elizabeth Mary Parker | Arthur J. Munby
garnered a report of her from R. J. Bush
, her publisher, with whom she consulted about the possibility of publishing her novel. Bush met her in the housekeeper's room at her... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Mary Parker | The bookseller who published it, R. J. Bush
of Charing Cross Road, advertised it in his window as by a domestic servant Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray. 312 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Mary Parker | Munby
, who had encouraged his secret wife, Hannah Cullwick
, to record her experiences of servant life, registered in his diary his delight at the discovery of EMP
's publication: I left his shop... |
| Literary responses | Jean Ingelow | Arthur Munby
, meeting JI
in early 1864, pronounced what became a commonly-held view, that she was second only to Mrs Browning
as a poetess. An unsuccessful poet himself, he was relieved of the... |
| Occupation | Charlotte Guest | By her marriage Lady Charlotte Guest entered not only a family but also a business: the Dowlais Iron Company
, founded by her husband's grandfather, which under the management of John Guest
grew to be... |
| Occupation | Emily Faithfull | But the debate over female employment brought hostility towards EF
. Anthony Trollope
commented rather patronizingly on her ventures in his book North America. Arthur Munby
claimed in his diary, after visiting the Victoria... |
| 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 |
Timeline
10 January 1863: The Metropolitan Railway, the first underground...
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10 January 1863
The Metropolitan Railway
, the first underground railway in the world, opened; it ran between Bishop's Road(Paddington) and Farringdon Street in London.
1864: Unitarian and feminist Mentia Taylor formed...
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1864
Unitarian and feminist Mentia Taylor
formed in London the Pen and Pencil Club
to foster literary and artistic exchange.
October 1864: The Working Women's College opened in Queen...
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October 1864
The Working Women's College
opened in Queen Street, London.
1865: Arthur Munby published Verses New and Ol...
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1865
Arthur Munby
published Verses New and Old.
By 17 April 1869: R. D. Blackmore published Lorna Doone....
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By 17 April 1869
R. D. Blackmore
published Lorna Doone.
November 1880: Arthur Munby published anonymously Dorothy:...
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November 1880
1891: Arthur Munby published this year two books...
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1891
Arthur Munby
published this year two books reflecting his interest in the working classes—the pseudonymous Vulgar Verses contained some work in dialect, while Faithful Servants collected hundreds of epitaths and obituaries—plus Vestigia Retrorsum, a...
1893: Arthur Munby published a narrative poem called...
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1893
Arthur Munby
published a narrative poem called Susan: A Poem of Degrees, a thinly disguised account of his tempestuous secret love for working-class diarist Hannah Cullwick
.
Texts
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.