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Upstairs Downstairs Love


Archive photographs of Victorian couple Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick

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The real-life story of a Victorian gentleman, Arthur Munby, and his servant lover, Hannah Cullwick, whose relationship was transformed by Munby's extraordinary erotic and anthropological fascination with the manual work of working-class women.

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Historian Dr Diane Atkinson

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By Dr Diane Atkinson

The historian and author of 'Love & Dirt' describes how Munby and Cullwick defied convention and the odds in a secret relationship lasting five decades.



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'Love & Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick.'

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