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WORKING WOMEN IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN, 1850-1910
The Diaries and Letters of Arthur J Munby (1828-1910) and Hannah Cullwick (1833-1909)
from Trinity College, Cambridge
Brief Chronology
1828
Arthur Joseph Munby born in Yorkshire, the eldest of 6 sons and 1 daughter. Birth of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882).
1833
Birth of Hannah Cullwick in Shropshire.
1834-1846
Publication of Modern Painters by John Ruskin.
1836-1837
Publication of Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
1838
Publication of The Kingdom of Christ by FD Maurice (1805-1872).
1840
Birth of Charles Booth (1840-1916), social reformer and pioneering sociologist.
1848
Publication of Politics for the People by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875).
1849-1850
Publication of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
1850
Publication of The Germ for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which flourished from 1848 onwards. Death of William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
1851
AJM graduates with a BA degree at Trinity college, Cambridge, and takes up the law at Lincoln’s Inn. Publication of London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew (1812-1887). Ruskin defends the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in The Times.
1852
Publication of Benoni, AJM’s first volume of verse.
1855
AJM called to the Bar.
1856
AJM receives MA degree at Trinity College, Cambridge.
1858-1888
AJM works in the ecclesiastical commissioners office.
1860-1870
AJM teaches Latin at the Working Men’s College.
1865
Publication of Verses Old & New by AJM.
1869
Publication of Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore.
1870
Death of Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Publication of Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
1873
Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick marry secretly. The marriage is know to AJM’s family and to three close friends (one is RD Blackmore), but to no one else. They do not have children.
1880
Publication of Dorothy, a Country Story by AJM. This is praised by Robert Browning.
1882
Death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882).
1888-1891
The “Jack the Ripper” murders result in the death of at least five prostitutes in London.
1891
Publication of Vestigia Petrosum by AJM. Also, publication of Vulgar Verses under the pseudonym of James Brown (most of AJM’s works were published anonymously).
1891-1902
Publication of Life and Labour of the People of London by Charles Booth (1840-1916).
1892
Publication of The Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
1893
Publication of Susan, A Poem of Degrees by AJM.
1896
Publication of Ann Morgan’s Love, A Pedestrian Poem, by AJM.
1900
Deaths of RD Blackmore (1825-1900) and John Ruskin (1819-1900).
1901
Publication of Poems, chiefly Lyric and Elegiac by AJM.
1910
Death of Arthur Munby.
1913
First performance of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).
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