Arthur Joseph Munby

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

The bookseller who published it, R. J. Bush of Charing Cross Road, advertised it in his window as by a domestic servant and so caught the attention of Arthur Munby , who was...

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...

HC moved to from Suffolk to London, for the sake of being closer to Arthur Munby .

Following a quarrel with her husband , HC moved back to her home county of Shropshire.

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...

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...

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...