Description: Diary entries cover weather, various engagements and encounters, as well as observations made of women performing duties as housemaids and labourers. Munby also comments on women's clothing, and how maids are treated by their master: "She waited outside during dinner; and her master clapped his hands for her as for an Eastern slave". He also refers to meeting a Spanish-American acrobat named Leona Dane.
Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of Trinity College, Cambridge. AMDigital Reference: GBR/0016/MUNB.
Original Version
Reproduction of: Diary of A J Munby, 1878 1 Jan - 31 Dec 1878.