Arthur Joseph 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The bookseller who published it, R. J. Bush of Charing Cross Road, advertised it in his window as by a domestic servant and so caught the attention of Arthur Munby , who was...

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...

Arthur Munby read with strong admiration & pleasure a review copy before publication, remembering having heard Gabriel read some of these poems from manuscript years before. His diary pronounced them vigorous, sensuous, keenly observant...

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...

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

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...

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, included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...