Arthur Joseph Munby

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

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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...
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...
Residence Hannah Cullwick
HC moved to from Suffolk to London, for the sake of being closer to Arthur Munby .
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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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.
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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...
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.
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and so caught the attention of Arthur Munby , who was...
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
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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...
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.

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

Arthur Munby published anonymously Dorothy: A Country Story with Kegan Paul .

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.