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Arthur Joseph Munby (19 August 1828 – 29 January 1910) was a British diarist, poet, portrait photographer, barrister and solicitor. He is also known as Arthur J. Munby and A. J. Munby.
Sep 10, 2018 · Arthur Munby was an upper-class man of letters who “collected” working class women, including his servant Hannah Cullwick, whom he married in 1873.
unby, Arthur Joseph (1828–1910), poet and civil servant, born in 1828, was eldest of six sons and one daughter of Joseph Munby of Clifton Holme, Yorkshire, solicitor, a member of an old Yorkshire family, by his wife Caroline Eleanor Forth (see Memorial of Joseph Munby, by A. J. Munby, 1876).
Apr 5, 2021 · Arthur J. Munby (frontispiece to Munby's Vestigia Retrorsum, Poems). ... if there be a Womanhood indeed, Which no defect of culture or of grace. Can maim or mar; if that spontaneous seed. Were found, sprung up in some unthought of place; Then, he who finds it, well might give his life.
Arthur Joseph Munby was born in Clifton, near York, on 19th August 1828, the eldest child of Joseph Munby, solicitor, and Caroline Eleanor Munby (nee Forth). He was educated at St Peter's School in York and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
A barrister and minor poet, Munby is best known today as the secret lover and husband of Hannah Cullwick, a maid-of-all-work whose own diaries, kept at his behest, have become a touchstone for Victorian working-class women’s writing.1 But Munby is also notable for being one of nineteenth-century Britain’s most indefatigable diarists.
A barrister and minor poet, Munby is best known today as the secret lover and husband of Hannah Cullwick, a maid-of-all-work whose own diaries, kept at his behest, have become a touchstone for Victorian working-class women’s writing. 1 But Munby is also notable for being one of nineteenth-century Britain’s most indefatigable diarists.
