num_pages: 327
description: Hannah Cullwick (1833-1909) worked all her life as a maidservant, scullion, and pot-girl. In 1854 she met Arthur Munby, 'man of two worlds,' upper-class author and poet, with a lifelong obsession for lower-class women. And so began their strange and secret romance of eighteen years and marriage of thirty-six, lived largely apart. Hannah's diaries, written on Munby's suggestion, offer an absorbing account of life 'below stairs' in Victorian England. But they reveal, too, a woman of extraordinary independence of will, whose chosen life of drudgery gave her the freedom not to 'play the Lady,' as Munby demanded. Rescued from obscurity, these diaries are a remarkable historical and personal document.
language: English
title: The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick: Victorian Maidservant
titlecomplete: The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick: Victorian Maidservant
genres: British Literature, Nonfiction, 19th Century, History, Victorian
ratings_count: 37
publisher: Olympic Marketing Corp