Arthur Joseph Munby

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.

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.

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

While in SuffolkHC was visited by Munby .

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...

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.

Munby visited HC irregularly while she lived in Bearley. They became closer again, though still living apart, in 1884 or 1885.

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...

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...

HC met in the street Arthur Munby , writer, poet, and collector of experiences and representations of working-class women.

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...

HC moved to from Suffolk to London, for the sake of being closer to Arthur Munby .

HC 's writing was intricately bound up with Munby as both lover and writer. They built a shared discursive world on the eroticization of class and gender transgression that found expression in the writings of...

HC stayed overnight with Arthur Munby at his chambers in the Inner Temple; he recorded in his diary resisting sexual temptation.

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...