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Arthur Munby

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283:-born maid-of-all-work who had been working in London since her late teens. They formed a relationship in which Munby was the master, whom Cullwick addressed as 'massa', and Cullwick the slave, with him training her in the virtues of hard work and loyalty. However, Cullwick used this master/slave dynamic to prove her own worth outside of Munby and put herself in a place of power. For example, she used the slave band Munby gave her to display the fact that she was a working-class woman, and that she was not ashamed of it; this can be seen in Cullwick’s journal when she says "my hands and arms are tho' chief to me, to get my living with." 33: 338: 118: 290:
They married secretly in 1873 but Cullwick resisted his efforts to place her in the role of a Victorian wife of his class. She continued to play the role of his domestic servant and only took on the role of a wife and lady when they traveled to Europe. They separated in 1877, but continued to see
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He kept journals from 1859 to 1898 that recorded the details of his interactions and in them he expressed his desire for the strength and care of a working woman. He was an amateur artist, and his diaries contain sketches of working women. He collected hundreds of photographs of such subjects as
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Munby and Cullwick experienced their roles differently. He once visited Cullwick at her workplace where she is actually a servant. He wrote: "But to see her stand in a drawing room in her servant's dress and know that she is a servant and that the piano, the books, the pictures belong to her
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women, particularly those who performed hard physical labour. He strolled through the streets of London and other industrial cities and approached working women to ask about their lives and the details of their work, while noting their clothes and
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Sometimes catalogued with J.W. Streeten as co-author. Munby did not collect all of the 692 epitaphs he published himself. His volume includes 311 epitaphs collected by Streeten which were published anonymously in 1826 in a volume titled
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for more than a decade and helped promote the Working Men's College Volunteer Corps, a response to the national call in 1859 for Volunteer Rifle Corps in response to a perceived war threat from
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in 1855. Munby became a barrister in accordance with his father's wish, a traditional role for an eldest son in his class. He worked as a civil servant in the
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each other and at times lived together until Cullwick's death in 1909. From 1887 onwards, the couple rented a cottage in the Shropshire village of
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mistress... this I could not endure." She, on the other hand, enjoyed waiting on him when he stayed at an inn where she was working.
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Davidoff, Leonore (1979). "Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Diaries of Arthur J. Munby and Hannah Cullwick".
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Rust, Martha Dana (1994). "In the Humble Service of Her Emancipation: Hannah Cullwick's Maid-of-All-Work Diaries".
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Our Hannah: A biography of the Victorian published diarist Hannah Cullwick (1833-1909)
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Faithful Servants: being epitaphs and obituaries recording their names and services
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Watching Hannah: Sexuality, Horror and Bodily De-formation in Victorian England
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
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Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
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Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick
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The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant
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Rutgers University Press, 1984. 425:"Munby, Arthur James (MNBY847AJ)" 856:Deaths from pneumonia in England 846:English male non-fiction writers 336: 321:One of Munby's best friends was 116: 130:may be too short to adequately 791:19th-century English educators 653:. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004 270:women who worked at collieries 140:provide an accessible overview 1: 821:English educational theorists 786:19th-century English diarists 796:19th-century English lawyers 216:Ecclesiastical Commissioners 663:. New York: Macmillan, 2003 429:A Cambridge Alumni Database 872: 801:19th-century English poets 431:. University of Cambridge. 316:Trinity College, Cambridge 204:Trinity College, Cambridge 97:Trinity College, Cambridge 589:"A good roll in the muck" 547:McClintock, Anne (1995). 512:2027/spo.0499697.0005.106 314:His papers are housed at 255:Munby had an interest in 194:Arthur Munby was born in 170:, portrait photographer, 39:Vestigia Retrorsum: Poems 30: 683:Munby: Man of Two Worlds 736:Pacific Coast Philology 700:. Gordon Fraser, 1979 ( 553:. New York: Routledge. 323:Richard Monckton-Milnes 246:Invicta: a Song of 1860 200:St Peter's School, York 826:English civil servants 811:Portrait photographers 726:Stanley, Liz, editor; 629:Munby, Arthur (1891). 311:, on 29 January 1910. 178:. He is also known as 238:Working Men's College 106:Barrister, solicitor 670:. Reaktion, 2002. ( 160:Arthur Joseph Munby 51:Arthur Joseph Munby 25:Arthur Joseph Munby 841:English male poets 836:English solicitors 831:English barristers 649:Flanders, Judith; 446:Harrison, J. F. C. 381:Verses New and Old 348:. 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summarize
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diarist
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solicitor
York
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Trinity College, Cambridge
called to the Bar
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Ecclesiastical Commissioners
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Working Men's College
Napoleon III
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women who worked at collieries
Hannah Cullwick
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