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  • Apart his brief accusation of being Jack the Ripper, Munby is notable for his secret cross-class marriage to his servant Hannah Cullwick.

    Victorian sexual history Ray Girvan 2004

  • Apart his brief accusation of being Jack the Ripper, Munby is notable for his secret cross-class marriage to his servant Hannah Cullwick.

    Archive 2004-01-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • Star voltage enough to blow the mains ring: Rosalie Craig, Kelly Price and Lucy Montgomery in Steven Sondheim's 1970 Company, a revival directed by Jonathan Munby at the Crucible in Sheffield.

    Company - review 2011

  • For example, in a study of the metaphors that one teacher employed when describing her teaching, Munby (1986) noted the constant use of the metaphor of the “lesson as moving object”.

    F is for Flow « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • The organizers deserve applause for having the imagination to have included a selection of mid-19th-century photographs and manuscripts showing British civil servant A.J. Munby's fetish for working-class women made grimy by their work he secretly married one of them.

    Dishing the 'Dirt' on Filth Paul Levy 2011

  • For example, in a study of the metaphors that one teacher employed when describing her teaching, Munby (1986) noted the constant use of the metaphor of the “lesson as moving object”.

    May « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • The couple reached an out of court settlement after Munby dismissed an application to have the hearing in private instead of in open court, in line with new laws opening up family court hearings to the media.

    And these little piggies … were named after a high court judge 2010

  • By now James and Self-Regarding may be sausages, Pompous and Publicity turned into rashers, and Munby, Seeking and Pillock neatly done up into chops in the freezer.

    And these little piggies … were named after a high court judge 2010

  • Munby has nailed this one firmly down the narrow subject of public law on admissions procedures in faith schools, but do you think:

    Who's a Jew? 2008

  • There's not much about this interesting couple on the Web, but Diane Atkinson's biography Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick is worth finding (Guardian review here).

    Archive 2004-01-01 Ray Girvan 2004

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