Diaries Of Hannah Cullwick

Diaries Of Hannah Cullwick by Stanley, Autumn. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780813510712.

"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 thiry-six, lived largely apart. Hannahs diaries, written on Munbys suggestion, offer an obsorbing 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."