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A SLAVE TO LOVE; Opposites attract: Hannah Culwick and lover Arthur Munby.
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The Daily Mail (London, England)
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June 26, 2008
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Byline: Zoe Brennan
OPENING the door to her mistress's bedchamber, the maid knew she wasrisking the wrath of Victorian society. Taking her upperclass lover by hishand, she drew him in. On her lady's bed lay a lavish ball gown. Silently,Hannah Cullwick took off her drab calico uniform. Donning the splendid dress,she emerged transformedonly her calloused hands and hefty limbs a reminder of her below-stairs status.
Her lover, Arthur Munby, would later write in diaries whichtogether with explicit photographsremained hidden for 50 years: 'I brushed out her bright hair in a lady'sfashion, and placed the rose within it.
'Thus she stood before me to be looked at: smiling ...
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