Arthur Joseph Munby

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

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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...
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...
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, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
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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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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...
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, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
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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.
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in public.
Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press.
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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.
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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/.
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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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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
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, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
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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.