Arthur Joseph Munby

Standard Name: Munby, Arthur Joseph
Used Form: Arthur J. Munby

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Hannah Cullwick
HC passed as a lady on a ten-day wedding trip with her darling Massa and husband,
qtd. in
Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press, 1984.
264
Arthur Munby .
Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press, 1984.
264
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, 1984.
241
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, 1984, 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...
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, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
9, 296, 302
Family and Intimate relationships Hannah Cullwick
HC met in the street Arthur Munby , writer, poet, and collector of experiences and representations of working-class women.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
2, 299
Family and Intimate relationships Hannah Cullwick
HC stayed overnight with Arthur Munby at his chambers in the Inner Temple; he recorded in his diary resisting sexual temptation.
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
105
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, 1984, 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, 1984.
255
in public.
Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press, 1984.
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...
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
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
Intertextuality and Influence Hannah Cullwick
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...
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,
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the Athenæum: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
24
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 51-71.
61
included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...
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...

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.
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
64
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
111
Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
298
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
113

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.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
152-3, 173
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
218

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.
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
45-6
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1395
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
177-8
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
264

1865: Arthur Munby published Verses New and Ol...

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1865

Arthur Munby published Verses New and Old.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

By 17 April 1869: R. D. Blackmore published Lorna Doone....

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By 17 April 1869

R. D. Blackmore published Lorna Doone.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2164 (1869): 534
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
403

November 1880: Arthur Munby published anonymously Dorothy:...

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November 1880

Arthur Munby published anonymously Dorothy: A Country Story with Kegan Paul .
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
402-4, 446

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 .
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
420-1
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Texts

Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.