The photographs and diaries of an extraordinary Victorian maid
In 1854, Hannah Culllwick, a 21-year-old maid of all work from Shropshire, met the barrister Arthur Munby on a London street. It was a meeting of minds that led to a relationship that was to for last 50 years. Although Hannah eventually became Munby’s wife, she chose to live with him as his servant. They were both fascinated by the new art of photography, and Hannah posed for a series of photographs in guises ranging from slave to fine lady. Both kept diaries, and the artist Alison Marchant has taken images and words left behind by Hannah and Arthur to make ‘Relicta – All That Remains', a new installation currently on show at the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock in Wiltshire. Judi Herman reports.
‘Relicta’ is on show at the Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock, Wiltshire, until 28 June.
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