num_pages: 250
description: On May 26, 1854, Arthur Munby met Hannah Cullwick. He was a solicitor for the Ecclesiastical Commission, and he loathed his job. She was a servant, a maid of all work. This first encounter marked the beginning of a relationship which was to endure for more than fifty years. Drawing on their diaries, letters, and Munby's photographs of Hannah, Diane Atkinson paints a picture of the wilder shores of Victorian sexuality. Love and Dirt is the story of a deep and lasting love between two extraordinary individuals who breached the barriers of class and endangered their vastly different stations in Victorian society.
language: English
title: Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick
titlecomplete: Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 30
publisher: Pan Macmillan