Arthur Joseph Munby

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

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Literary responses Christina Rossetti
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...
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...
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...
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, 1984.
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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...
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...
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
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
qtd. in
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
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and so caught the attention of Arthur Munby , who was...
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...
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, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
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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, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
3, 299
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...
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...

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