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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. 57 |
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. 312 |
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. 301 |
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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